Bisso's upgraded ASD tugs handle the Mississippi's strong currents

摘要

Capt. Christian Hoffman maneuvered the 96-foot azimuthing stern drive tug Beverly B alongside the bow of Energy 11103, a 391-foot Hornbeck tank barge made up to the 126-foot tug Freedom Service, upriver from New Orleans on the Mississippi River.After running with the barge for a ways, Hoffman nosed the tug perpendicular to the barge's starboard bow and, in his understated words, "pushed her around then jumped to the other side." With the barge turned end-to-end and the tug on its port side, Hoffman followed the pilot's commands and pushed the tug and barge to the Motiva Norco No. 4 dock.