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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 .
One of the last coal-burning car ferries on Lake Michigan, she entered service for the Pere Marquette Railway company in March 1941 as the largest Great Lakes ferry. Powered by two Skinner Unaflow steam engines , the City of Midland 41 was capable of speeds up to 20 miles per hour (17.4 kn) with a cruising speed of 17.6 miles per hour (15.3 kn).
MV Kaye E. Barker on the Fox River in downtown Green Bay (2022). The SS Edward B. Greene on her maiden voyage in 1952, docked in Marquette. The MV Kaye E. Barker was constructed in Toledo in 1952 for the Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Company as the SS Edward B. Greene, one of the eight AAA class freighters used for ore and coal shipping.
In December 2020, SS Badger was acquired by the Interlake Steamship Company. [11] The deal also included acquisition of the tug USS Undaunted (ATA-199) (renamed MT Undaunted), deck barge SS City of Midland 41 (renamed ATB Pere Marquette 41), and SS Badger sister ship SS Spartan, currently in long-term lay-up.
Pere Marquette 18 (2nd) (1911), in service until 1952; Pere Marquette 21 (1924), in service until 1973; Pere Marquette 22 (1924), in service until 1973; City of Saginaw 31 (1929), in service until 1973; City of Flint 32 (1930), in service until 1969, converted to barge Roanoke; SS City of Midland 41 (1941), in use until 1983, now the barge Pere ...
A barge operator believes it has found a sunken barge in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one of 26 that broke loose and floated away during weekend flooding, company officials said Tuesday. Crews ...
Perret said he tries to keep on “blinders” to the politics of D.C., but regulatory shifts will directly impact his company. One vital example is open banking—a policy first introduced in ...
In December 2020, Badger was sold to Interlake Steamship Company. [24] The deal also includes the barge Pere Marquette 41 and SS Spartan. [24] [25] It was a part of a larger sale of assets. Interlake is based in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. [26] On July 21, 2023, a ramp counterweight in the ferry's Ludington terminal failed.