Making the Most of Barge and Tugboat Services

Making the most of barge and tugboat services to keep your business in motion
By Nikki Davis Barge and tugboat services can keep your business moving. From transportation of goods, to keeping your boats passing through hard to maneuver waterways, barge companies and tugboat services can help keep your business stay afloat.
 

Barge companies and river barge companies can offer you a cost effective means to transport non-perishable items. Tug companies can help you move your larger ships into hard to reach or maneuver harbors or waterways. They allow you to cut your power to a lower speed and be pushed or pulled into place or the right direction.

Making the most of barge and tugboat services includes:

1. Finding out how barge companies can move your products cost effectively. Run a cost comparison and see how much money you can save.

2. Find out how tug boat companies can cut your navigation time by helping you into places you didn't think you could go before.

3. Consider companies that offer both barge and tugboat services.

Use barge companies for transportation of goods

Find out how barge companies can offer you a cost effective means of transportation of goods.
Try: Find out how CGB Marine specializes in grain transportation by taking advantage of the nation's inland waterways. Tidewater specializes in grain, wood and wood products, refined petroleum products as well as liquid and dry fertilizers.

Take advantage of tug boat companies to get your boat a movin'

Find out how tug boat companies can push or pull your vessel into harbors, out to sea, in for repair and more. Learn how their services can become invaluable to your business.
Try: Take advantage of Pacific Tugboat Services for your professional marine service needs 24 hours a day. Urban Towing is a company available out of New York City Harbor.

Look at companies that offer both barge and tugboat services

Consider companies that can give you both barge and tugboat services. Some businesses may be large enough to have that need, and there are companies out there large enough to fill it.
Try: C&P Tug and Barge of Portsmouth, Virginia offers both tugboat and barge services. Their services include coastal and inland barge transportation, contract towing and bulk and liquid transportation. Island Tug and Barge out of Seattle also offers dual tug and barge services. They have been in business since 1979. They offer cargo transport, construction support, environmental transportation and more.

• Barge companies are only applicable to businesses that have access to major waterways, such as the Ohio and Mississippi River. Rail transport is another of the least expensive modes of transportation, though, so transporting by rail to barge, may be an option. Running a cost analysis is imperative, though.