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The 2025 International WorkBoat Show is scheduled for December 3-5, 2025, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Know when to audible

Joel Milton

Hefring Marine CEO, Karl Birgir Björnsson, presents at the 2024 International WorkBoat Show. Doug Stewart photo.

Call for speakers: Be a voice at the 2025 International WorkBoat Show

WorkBoat Staff

Isabel Fitzsimons, great-great-grandaughter Isabel “Belmar” McAllister, with new tug Isabel McAllister in the background. Buckley McAllister photo.

New tug launched for McAllister

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The Mr. Brian is the sixth ASD tractor tug built for Bisso Towboat in the past nine years by Main Iron Works. In fact, all 10 of the company's tractor tugs were built at the shipyard. Bisso Towboat photo.

On board Bisso Towboat’s newest tractor tug Mr. Brian

Ken Hocke

Eastern Shipbuilding Group photo.

Eastern cuts steel for Saltchuk's new escort tugs

WorkBoat Staff

Emergency responders battle a fire on board the tugboat Lucinda Smith in New Bedford, Mass. New Bedford EMS photo.

Tugboat catches fire in Massachusetts

WorkBoat Staff

(L-R): Jim Houmiel; Rear Admiral Jon Hickey, U.S. Coast Guard, Ninth District (Great Lakes); Danny Brabon; Superintendent Jerry Achenbach, Great Lakes Maritime Academy; Leo Murphy; Andy Cook; and Administrator Adam Tindall-Schlicht, Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. on the Robinson Bay. Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. photo

Historic tug donated to Great Lakes Maritime Academy

WorkBoat Staff

The Regent Viceroy seaglider, a 12-passenger electric powered flying boat, is planned to be delivered in 2026. Regent rendering.

Vessels of the future? They’re here

Kirk Moore

One of Suderman & Young's Z-Drive Rapport 2600 Class tugs delivered in 2023. S&Y photo.

Suderman & Young selected by EPA grant program for electric tug

WorkBoat Staff

Damage to the Hylebos Bridge fender system following the contact. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Incorrect lineup leads to tugboat-bridge allision, NTSB says

WorkBoat Staff