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Tug & Barge

Carlisle & Bray

Carlisle & Bray

HP vessels. The company also has a 160x60 1,600 ton dry on part of a river segment, say from Cairo to Louisville, dock at Ohio River MM 482.5. Services include complete thereby allowing its partner company to keep its focus, and design-build-construction and repair as well as dredging, equipment, on New Orleans, for example, or Memphis. barge loading/unloading and salvage. C&B calls this its “express business,” a service for which it

C&B Marine operates four ? eeting areas on the Ohio believes it can provide greater ef? ciencies.

River and a heavy-lifting dock on the Licking River. C&B C&B expects an expanding business environment and

Energy Services serves utility and aggregate customers accelerating growth. The company is involved in a new across the Midwest and southern states. It provides marine heavy lift dock project in Gallatin, Ky., at the Nucor steel and shore-side services including byproduct movement plant site. Related site work includes energy infrastructure and management, heavy-lift crane services, barge cleaning and dredging. Somewhat farther in the future Ohio and and waterway and shore-side construction. Kentucky, between Cincinnati and Covington, are close

One recent unusual assignment included helping the to building a new Interstate 75/71 Brent Spence Bridge, a

American Queen cruise ship after it encountered pow- massive project that will actually involve three bridges, at er failures. C&B’s Enterprise pushed the vessel from least. That work could start in 2023. C&B expects barges

Maysville, Ky. to Pittsburgh. On another occasion C&B and large cranes will be in high demand.

Energy Services responded to an emergency in which a 300x54 foot barge broke in half. C&B used two large A

Shaver Transportation frames to transfer 1,000 tons of equipment and product Shaver Transportation, headquartered in Portland, Ore. to a new barge. The customer was back in business in six is a sixth-generation family-owned tug and barge line serv- days. C&B’s motto: “Whatever it takes.” ing the Columbia-Snake River system in Washington, Or-

Looking ahead, C&B is pursuing partnerships with na- egon and Idaho. President: Steve Shaver.

tional transporters in which C&B would provide service Shaver provides ship assist, escort and rescue services for www.marinelink.com MN 17|