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April 16, 2021 By Frank McCormack Blakeley BoatWorks (BBW), the shipbuilding subsidiary of Cooper/T. Smith, has built and delivered an EPA Tier 4-compliant towing vessel to sister company Cooper Marine & Timberlands (CMT). The mv. Gretchen V. Cooper is the United States’ first linehaul towing vessel to be powered by Tier 4 Caterpillar high-speed engines with selective catalytic reduction. Both Blakeley BoatWorks and Cooper Marine & Timberlands are headquartered within the Port of Mobile, Ala. The mv. Gretchen V. Cooper measures...

January 15, 2021 By H. Nelson Spencer Eymard Marine Construction & Repair Inc. recently completed a 1,500 hp. towboat that was a long time in the making. Named the mv. Caleb J. Eymard, it was constructed for the firm’s sister company, Eymard Brothers Towing Company Inc. What is notable is the fact that the Harvey, La., shipyard did not complete the towboat until a full five years after starting to work on it, which goes to show just how busy the yard was during that time. It remains so today. The hull was laid in 2015. The boat...