A towboat pilot’s use of his personal cell phone and extreme fatigue were key factors in a costly barge collision on the lower Mississippi River last year, federal investigators concluded in a r ...

Western Towboat Co., Seattle, has a versatile fleet of harbor and oceangoing tugboats that tow a little bit of everything in ...

A recent oil spill in Marin County, in Northern California, has drawn attention because the captain of the tug involved ...