The barge crashed into a sailboat in Biscayne Bay on Monday morning, killing two girls and critically injuring two other girls on the sailboat.

The pusher tug MV Cavek is 76 feet long, and her companion barge, AVEC-208, takes an additional 208 feet. Together, the articulated tug and barge resemble a landing craft complete with bow loading ...

The fully electric pusher boats and barges are expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 190,000 kg per year, the equivalent of 15,000 single trips of the same distance by truck.

A double hull mitigates the risk of a fuel spill resulting from any grounding or collision damage.Each pusher tug can handle16 barges in a 4 by 4 array, creating a convoy spanning 290 metresby 60 ...

One of the tugs will be used to push a cement barge across the Great Lakes, beginning at the end of 2018, he said. Both the tug and barge need to be drydocked for work prior to the cement project.

According to Argus Media, the barge will have a capacity of approximately 18,000 barrels. It will facilitate Wawa's plans to expand its presence in Florida, which relies primarily on seaborne fuel ...

A tug boat pushing three barges filled with hundreds of crushed cars through Bayou Chico ran aground Monday morning. The tug boat separated from the barges, causing owners of dozens of boats in ...

A young man died Wednesday after being crushed between two barges in the Naknek River. Spencer Vaughn Brewer, 20, of Seattle was a deckhand with Naknek Barge Lines.

The barge, registered as "Sea Fuels 1" and the tug, "Emma Nicole," were acquired from Reinauer Marine of New York. Financing was provided by BayCoast Bank.

The Presque Isle tug/barge combo is a one-of-a-kind on the Great Lakes. Not only is the tug dedicated to push the barge and no other barge, the combined length of the two is just 14 feet short of ...

Technically, the river tugs that push barges are called towboats, while those that push ships in harbors are called tugboats. But the general public calls them all tugboats.