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Title: Articulated Tug Barge
Post by: Shiphotos on December 17, 2010, 01:12:37 AM

In North America we are seeing more and more ATB's, Articulated Tug Barge.  Because they are secured to each other by one system or another, such as BLUDWORTH-COOK SYSTEM, they are neither Tug nor Barge nor Tanker.  Is it possible to have a category for these type of units?

Thanks.
Paul Beesley

Title: Re: Articulated Tug Barge
Post by: Daniel B on December 17, 2010, 02:06:12 AM

Allo, Paul
Those things are so ugly that they do not need a special category, nobody would give them a second look anyway. The Great Lakes where an extremely beautiful place to watch vessels go by and I was there, around 1965 to 1970 when they had all those old bulk freighters steamers.