Dry Cargo Barge
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- Ingram Purchases Assets Of Ohio Barge Line And Mon-Valley Transportation Maritime Reporter, Jan 15, 1985 #22
E. Bronson Ingram, president of Ingram Industries Inc., recently announced the purchase from United States Steel Corporation and its subsidiaries, Ohio Barge Line, Inc. and Mon-Valley Transportation Company, of substantially all their marine assets. OBL's 15 boats and 516 barges will almost double the size of Ingram Barge Company, the subsidiary of Ingram Industries, which will operate the combined fleet and assume the numerous Ohio Barge Line affreightment contracts.
"Ingram and OBL have complementary traffic patterns and complementary fleets. In combination we will be one of the largest and most efficient carriers in the industry." Ingram had previously doubled its dry cargo barge fleet in the last 18 months, thus establishing itself as a major carrier on the Upper Mississippi River. With the combined Ingram/OBL fleet, In- gram will become a major carrier on the Ohio and Illinois Rivers as well, The OBL equipment will also pro- vide Ingram with greatly expanded in the area of chemicals affreightment.
In addition to moving grain and petroleum products, Ingram Barge transports significant amounts of limestone rock, coal, fertilizer, scrap steel, steel products, and a wide variety of other products. The com- is the river's largest carrier of fuel oil for industry and utilities.
Ingram Barge Company is a subsidiary of Ingram Industries Inc., headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.
A privately held corporation, its diversified businesses include inland marine transportation and aggregates supply, consumer products distribution, coal production and sales, petroleum wellhead equipment manufacturing and insurance.
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- Am-Can To Start Tug-Barge Service On Great Lakes In '81 Maritime Reporter, Feb 1980 #27
harbors. Am-Can's first tug-barge unit will begin operation at the beginning of the Great Lakes shipping season in 1981. The barge is a 22,000-ton dry cargo barge at 27 feet FW. The dimensions are 575 feet long, 75- foot beam, and 45-foot depth. The construction is double skin. The total cargo area is 800
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- Navigating Sustainability: Charting a Way Forward Marine News, Nov 2023 #20
an industry, we have an extremely positive sustainability story to tell policymakers, industry customers and the public today: the story of a single dry cargo barge that can move as much cargo as 16 rail cars or 70 trucks; of vessels that emit over 40% less carbon than rail and over 800% less than trucks;
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- US Barging Industry Navigating Black Swan Events Marine News, May 2020 #30
challenged market even before the recent oil price crash and before the novel coronavirus was discovered in December 2019.The US’ second-largest dry cargo barge owner, American Commercial Lines (ACL), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, citing in court documents a “confluence
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42, and the launch of a new high amperage subsea connector se- ries, the 225 Amp BIRNS Meridian line. The Meridian line, a robust, custom engineered dry-mate connector series is open face rated to 6km, and is well-suited for battery packs and thrusters for crewed and uncrewed subsea vehicles that re- quire
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35. ing one generally involves some measure of trade-off. ? Lithium Polymer (LiPo): A lower cost version of the Lithium-ion battery. A LiPo battery uses a dry, thin electro- ? Battery Packs: Soldering directly to batteries may lyte polymer separator sheet laminated between the anode damage the cell. Batteries
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41operator Tokyo Kisen. Oldendorff Carri- for 2024, including return customers faced by their watchkeepers at sea. In the ers, one of the world’s leading dry bulk looking to roll out Groke Pro across their future, we are planning to build guidance owners and operators, has also joined us. ? eet. We see
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs “Wall Climbing Robot” Danish Pilot calls gets ClassNK Nod LEGO Model "A tribute build to a work life at sea" Image courtesy MOL, Sumitomo Heavy Industries lassNK granted its Innovation Endorse- Image courtesy Espen Andersen/DanPilot ment for
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35SIMULATION e have a close relationship with tech- Realism is prized beyond immersive, photo-realistic visu- nology, evidenced by, for example, als, and providers are introducing increasingly accurate func- the phones we are estimated to un- tionality. FORCE Technology’s upcoming DEN-Mark2 math- lock around
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31CRANES & OFFSHORE WIND Cadeler’s new NG-20000X class vessels will have 2,600t cranes, and its new NG-20000F class vessel will have a 3,200t crane. Similar new vessels for Havfram will have a crane of approximately 3,200t, as will Van Oord’s KNUD E. HAN- SEN-designed newbuilding currently being built in
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27place. We’re replenishment oilers, with more on the way. We have 14 Lew- hoping that makes things easier for our people, and that it is and Clark class dry cargo and ammunition ships that deliver will help us to retain them. Unfortunately, we can’t guaran- ammo, food, parts and fuel. We have two big fast
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 28Feature Shipbuilding WindServe Marine you don’t have the sustained backlog.” Previous editions of Marine News’ U.S. Shipbuilding re- port have noted the increasing concern about what ABS’s Bleiberg (moderating the Marine Money panel) called “the big push for sustainable” shipping”, adding that: “What we
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 22Feature Navigation inside the approved lease area as a requirement under the BOEM’s attention to the USCG’s recent 27-page Federal terms and conditions of a speci? c lease. Register Notice (January 19) to establish “shipping safety • For structure siting, the USCG (again) “insists” that fairways along
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 15Q&A time, sometimes we win in game seven, but it really takes now to make sure that folks understand that tug and barge a united industry, and so I just really appreciate the great transportation is the most sustainable mode of freight work of AWO members, of coalition partners, shippers, transportation?
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 13re- want to make sure that that renewal cycle goes smoothly quirements which then leads to different interpretations and ef? ciently, that the process of dry docking and all of and different outcomes. We appreciate the Coast Guard that goes ef? ciently and, again, with a risk-based approach. taking steps
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 12Insights century technology in 2024.” That’s an area of focus. industry. We want to do that in a realistic way. These are We also want to make sure that we have workers on our great careers where a hardworking person can make a six- vessels who are ? t for duty. One of the things that we have ? gure
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 10Insights Jennifer QQQQQQQQQAAA & Carpenter President & CEO, American Waterways Operators The towboat, tug and barge industry is in a pe- CARB’s harbor craft rules have been center riod of rapid evolution. How is AWO—now in its stage of late. AWO’s stance on the situation has 80th year of existence—adapt
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 44Tech Files Latest Products & Technologies MarineShaft Yanmar Hydrogen MarineShaft specializes in urgent re- Fuel Cell AIP pair/replacement of damaged rudder and Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. propeller equipment along with many (Yanmar PT), a subsidiary of Yanmar on-site repair services. MarineShaft
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43OPINION: The Final Word lenges related to quality of life factors GAO made six recommendations that may affect this. Currently, reports on also affects the Coast Guard’s ability to the Coast Guard, among other things, these types of issues are expected to be retain personnel. For example, in April
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36fuel prices (far less for new fuels). Michael D. Chris- ery and an optimized hull and cargo design, the company’s two tensen, VP Global Sales, Dry Cargo Vessels at ABB, is seeing newbuild self-discharging bulk carriers were projected to cut greater take up on bulker newbuilds, but not yet across
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35PTI/PTO 30 years ago shaft generators with PTI capability kept container ships sailing at top speed. That purpose gone, PTI/PTO is making a new comeback in more cargo shipping segments, this time for reducing emissions. By Wendy Laursen etro? tting a shaft generator is not an insigni? - the ef? ciency
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31, it was the overriding bearing material migrating through the lubrication system. theme at Sea Asia.” Rudder, propeller and shaft needed to be removed in dry dock However, insurer Gard remains concerned about EAL fail- before the required repairs could be completed. ure, and company analysts voiced them
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29AMERICAN ROLL-ON ROLL-OFF CARRIER (ARC) operate a US ? ag ship just for the MSP customer through that global network. As an example of “clarity and con- stipend. It’s a cargo driven industry, and We are certainly a unique business unit sistency,” Ebeling points ? rst to “the those cargoes help to
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28COVER FEATURE times of con? ict or in other national said Ebeling. “If you look at Iraq and tors bring to the table, all provided by emergencies, and the program also Afghanistan, 98% of those cargoes the MSP ? eet, and it would cost the provides DoD access to MSP partici- were transported to the