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The SS Charles W. Wetmore was a whaleback freighter built in 1891 by Alexander McDougall's American Steel Barge Company shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin, USA.She was named in honor of Charles W. Wetmore, a business associate of Alexander McDougall, officer of the shipyard, and associate of the Rockefeller family.
As of 2005, ARTCO owned 2,000 barges, and some towboats and harbor tugboats. [5] As of 2016, ARTCO operated a fleet of 20 fleeting boats, a shipyard with five dry docks and a barge wash and repair facility. ARTCO ships many of ADM's products, including grain and oil seed, ethanol, and corn gluten meal. Along with other goods they transport for ...
Wan Hai Lines Taiwan: 481,225 118 1.7% 12 Pacific International Lines (PIL) Singapore: 295,567 89 1.0% [Note 8] 13 Shandong International Transportation Corporation (SITC) China: 160,156 101 0.6% 14 X-Press Feeders Singapore: 157,681 81 0.5% [Note 9] 15 Korea Marine Transport Corporation (KMTC) South Korea: 150,704 64 0.5% 16 Sea Lead Shipping ...
Over the next couple of decades the company expanded their fleet to 300 helicopters, which was the biggest non-military group of aircraft., [8] [9] and constructed the world's largest heliport at Lake Palourde in Morgan City [10] In 1981 Petroleum Helicopters created PHI Air Medical, and became a provider of aeromedical services.
Seaspan ULC evolved into a prominent marine transportation company serving the West Coast of North America with a large tugboat and barge fleet. Seaspan's barges haul forestry materials (logs, wood chips, hog fuel, lumber, pulp, paper and newsprint), minerals (construction aggregate and limestone), railcars, plus machinery, fuel and supplies to coastal communities.
The Marquette Transportation Company is a marine transportation company based in Paducah, Kentucky, United States. According to the company website, Marquette operates over 800 barges with a fleet of more than 50 line-haul vessels, over 60 inland towing vessels, and 9 offshore tugboats .
"This ain't my first hurricane, but this one took me down," said Robert Shufelt who was rescued from his boat which snapped its moorings in the storm.
On 11 November 2004, while leaving Mayport, Florida en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the tow wires connecting the tug and barge parted, causing the barge to run aground. [7] At the time of the accident, the vessels were experiencing 30- knot (56 km/h; 35 mph) wind gusts and 12-foot (3.7 m) seas. [ 7 ]