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Acquisition sparks creation of Interlake Maritime Services

Leave a Comment / Great Lakes, Historical, Post, tugs / By Maritime Magazine

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, OHIO – Interlake Holding Company announced yesterday the purchase of the assets of Pere Marquette Shipping Company and Lake Michigan Car Ferry Company in an acquisition that includes two working Great Lakes vessels, the Articulated Tug-Barge Undaunted-Pere Marquette 41 and the S.S. Badger, a historic passenger-and-car ferry. The acquisition signals the creation of a new business entity, Interlake Maritime Services, which will manage the new businesses along with The Interlake Steamship Company and its fleet of nine …

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ABB to power South Asia’s first LNG hybrid tug for efficient and sustainable operations

Leave a Comment / Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, IMO, International, Post, Shipbuilding, Sulpher Cap, tugs / By Maritime Magazine

ABB’s electric propulsion, power, energy storage, control and automation technology will be at the heart of the first tug in South Asia capable of switching between low emission LNG engines and zero-emission battery power. The tug, which will operate in Singapore harbor, has been ordered by Sembcorp Marine subsidiary Jurong Marine Services for delivery from …

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Tug and barge launches Thunder Bay shipping season

Leave a Comment / McKeil, Ports, Post, Seaway, tugs / By Maritime Magazine

For the first time on record, a tug and barge has opened the Port of Thunder Bay shipping season. The 2020 navigation season officially began with the arrival of the Tug Sharon M1 and Barge Huron Spirit on Thursday evening. The vessel combination came abeam of the Mission Pier entrance at 21:30 March 26, 2020. Owned and …

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Ocean Group breaks into Canada’s West Coast market

Leave a Comment / Articles, Groupe Ocean, Ports, Post, tugs, Vancouver / By Maritime Magazine

Québec – Ocean Group announced that it has been awarded several contracts in British Columbia in various sectors of its activities. After more than three years of presence in Alberta, Ocean Group is now extending its services to the Canadian west coast. “It goes without saying that a great deal of development work has been …

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