Marine Vessels

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Towboats, Barges, and Tugs

• Liquid Cargo Barge Description
• Bay-Houston Towing Company
• Blessey Marine Services, Inc.
• Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc.
• Florida Marine Transporters, Inc.
• Higman Marine
• Kirby Inland Marine
• Maryland Marine
• T&T Marine Towing and the M/V Rudy T
• towboater.com

Bunker Fuel Oil

• About Bunker Fuel
• Bunkerworld Bunker News
• Bunker Fuel Quality
• Daily Bunker Prices from OceanConnect
• Fuel Quality Testing Programme (FQT)
• ISO 8217 FUEL STANDARD)

Tanker Ships

• Auke Visser's Supertanker Pictures
• AET Tanker Ship Fleet
• Common Structural Rules (CSR)for Oil Tankers
• General Maritime Corporation
• Heidmar Group
• Jones Act Product and Chemical Carriers USA Merchant Tanker Ship Fleet
• LMZ Transoil Shipping Enterprises S.A.
• Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.
• Skaugen PetroTrans, Inc.
• Stena Bulk
• Tanker Ships built at Todd Galveston Drydocks Inc., during WWII
• Tankers International
• Tanker Market Reports...E A Gibson Shipbrokers Ltd
• Teekay Shipping
• Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN)

Check out these web pages for addtional information regarding crude oil imports
arriving from Mexico, Venezuela, West Africa, and the Persian Gulf

Crude Oil Imports| Venezuela| Mexico| Nigeria| Texas City Crude Imports| Persian Gulf

Navigation on Texas Waterways

• Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
• Houston /Galveston Area Chartlets
• Real-Time wind, current, and tide data for Hou/Galv. Mariners
• Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) Houston/Galveston-PDF file
• Bolivar Ferry

Ports of Texas Information

• Port of Galveston
• Port of Houston Authority
• The Port of Texas City
• Port of Victoria - Victoria County Navigation District
• Web Cam of Pier 21 in Galveston Harbor at Kroooz-Cam.com

Houston Ship Channel

• DOCK Draft Limitation Imposed By Houston Pilots
• Houston Pilots
• Houston-Galveston Aids to Navigation Projects
• Navigating the Houston Ship Channel
• Ships In Berth
• STATE OF THE WATERWAY – 2005

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

• America’s Inland Barge Industry A Plan for the Future
• Galveston Causeway and Railroad Bridge
• History of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
• Navigation Problems on the Gulf ICW near Galveston, Texas
• Traffic problems along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

General Local, National, and Global Marine Industry Links

• American Association of Port Authorities
• International Maritime Organization
• Inlandboatmen's Union
• Gulf Coast Mariners Association
• Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association
• MARITIME e-Biz Center / MarineDigital.com
• Merchant Mariner Licensing and Documentation
• Seafarers International Union
• World Shipping Register

Maritime Education

• Animated Knots by Grog
• Barge Cargo Comparison
• Environmental Advantages of Inland Barge Transportation
• Excellent Resource of Ship Pictures, JTASHIPPHOTO
• Lightering 101-Introduction to Offshore Lightering-PDF file
• Little River Books-"THE place to buy river books!"
• Maritime Glossary
• Petroleum Refining Process-OSHA Technical Manual
• Trends in Oil Spills from Tanker Ships
• Types of Tanker Ships
• USCG Investigation into the Explosion & Sinking of Bow Mariner
• The Waterways Journal- "Weekly trade publication serving the inland rivers and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway"-

Video Vessel Traffic at the lower end of Galveston Bay