Cleveland-built Great Lakes Towing Co. Tug Headed to Honduras
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Frank Bentayou | Source: Plain Dealer
The first Cleveland-built tugboat ever to be sold abroad will head to Honduras before fall.
Great Lakes Towing Co. sold the tugboat, built from steel keel to wheelhouse at the company’s West Side Cleveland lakeshore shipyard, to a customer in Central America. It will go into operation in September.
… While building the two tugboats, Great Lakes Towing also has constructed and sold 27 metal barges that buyers have put to use in hauling cargo, as floating docks and, linked together, as temporary bridges.
Ronald Rasmus, the tug company’s president, and his team designed the barges so they can be hauled on trucks and any number of them can be connected as platforms or much larger hauling surfaces. “We’re shipping them all over the country and expect to be exporting the barges, too,” he said.
Details about the new tug, more about Great Lakes Towing and more at the Plain Dealer >>
