489 April 2008

Pushboats Near Completion

Progressive Barge Line's new boat getting dressed in the owner's distinctive colours. Photo by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Marine.

Last January I sent out a pair of stories about push boats building along the Harvey Ship Canal across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. The stories were accompanied by photos that I took in early December 2007. Last week I had an opportunity to swing by the yards for an updated photo showing four and a half months of progress.

The first was Progressive Barge Lines 2400 HP 75x28-foot pushboat (Hotips#464), which now has a bright new paint job and is nearly ready to be swung into the canal.

L&L Marine Transportation are finishing up their new boat on the Harvey Ship Canal in Louisiana. Photo by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Marine.

Lee Leboeuf, happy with his all Cummins fleet. Photo by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Marine.

The second boat (Hotips#460), which I reported last January as building at Eymard Bros. Towing’s yard at 2500 Peters Rd along the opposite side of the canal, was gone from the yard. But I found it a mile or so back down the canal at 1300 Peters Road where it is being finished out. Lee Leboeuf had purchased the boat with all the steel work completed and the engines installed. After having the house sand blasted and primed he has the boat back at his L&L Marine Transportation yard. He will finish it out and add it as the fourth vessel in his all Cummins-powered fleet. Although his other three boats are powered by Cummins KTA19 engines this will be his first with the 850 HP Cummins KTA38 engines.

For more information:

Warren A. Buffone
Vice President
P.O. Box 99
Westwego
LA 70096-0099
USA
Phone: 504 340 8414
Fax: 504 347 0389
E-mail: warren@progressivebarge.com
Web: www.progressivebarge.com

Lee Leboeuf
L&L Marine Transportation, Inc.
1300 Peters Rd.
P.O. Box 931
Harvey, Louisiana 70059
Phone: (504) 366 2871
Fax (504) 362 2428

Al Heisler
Territory Sales Manager
Cummins Mid-South Inc.
Kenner LA 70062
Phone: 504 465 3403
Fax: 504 465 3408
E-mail: al.heisler@Cummins.com

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