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A union decertification petition was circulated in 2016, but employees voted 649 to 190 to retain Teamsters Local 89 as their union. [8] As of 20 June 2015, the 68-acre Jeffboat shipyard is owned by American Commercial Lines Inc. (ACL), a company also based in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Mark Knoy is the CEO.
CSX Corporation sold two-thirds of its control of water transport company American Commercial Barge Line in 1998, citing a desire to focus more on rail operations. [20] The founding chairman of CSX Corporation was Prime F. Osborn III of Seaboard, [21] for whom Jacksonville's Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center is named. The first CEO and ...
The last boat rolled off Jeffboat's assembly line in 2018 when the company shut down after nearly 200 years of operation. The site sat vacant in the interim, though plans to redevelop it have been ...
The Great Lakes Group (GLG) is an American full-service marine-related transportation company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.The Great Lakes Group is the parent Company to The Great Lakes Towing Company, Great Lakes Shipyard, Tugz International L.L.C., Puerto Rico Towing & Barge Co., Soo Linehandling Services, Admiral Towing and Barge Company, and Wind Logistics, Inc. [1]
American River Transportation Co., LLC (ARTCO) is a subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). It provides river transportation , including barges and a shipyard; it also operates towboats on the Illinois River , Mississippi River , and Ohio River . [ 2 ]
Longshoremen on a New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1912. Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960. A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, docker, wharfman, lumper or wharfie) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. [1]
Joseph Curran (March 1, 1906 – August 14, 1981) was a merchant seaman and an American labor leader. He was founding president of the National Maritime Union (or NMU, now part of the Seafarers International Union of North America) from 1937 to 1973, and a vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
In 1984, Ingram purchased Ohio Barge Line, formerly owned by U.S. Steel. Neil N. Diehl came on board as Chairman Emeritus of IBCO to oversee the acquisition. [3] During the 1980s, Ingram bought many boats and barges from several different transportation companies, allowing IBCO to become the third largest for-hire river carrier in the U.S.