Cary Godwin has spent this summer training a group of 10 cadets at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy to sail a tugboat.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Capt. Ralph Carpino nosed the stubby bow of the tugboat along the port side of the cargo ship. The tug was nothing pretty to look at, its thick bumper of old tires forming a kind of ...

Jim Sadowski’s Fells Point is a world apart from the Fells Point of designer bars and funky antique shops. The 61-year-old tugboat captain rents an old pier off the east side of the 900 block of S.

Fortescue Metals Group has threatened to stand down workers if a threatened tugboat strike at Port Hedland goes ahead, as tensions and rhetoric mount over industrial action that could cost hundreds of ...

“Look how small we are,” said tugboat captain Mike Kaiwi, as he steered the 79-foot-long harbor tug Eleu through Nawiliwili Harbor, dwarfed by the Matson barge they were assisting to position in front ...

Citing a lack of preparation, bad weather and a mechanical breakdown as three important factors, the TSB today released its investigation report (M13N0001) into the loss-of-tow by the tugboat ...