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Members of the Ingram Marine Group family gathered in Reserve, La., June 2 to honor two longtime Ingram leaders and commission a pair of new towboats into the company's fleet. The new vessels, the mv. Adrienne M. Moore and the mv. Tom Cornwell, are part of a 10-boat series Main Iron Works is building for Ingram. The vessels are also Ingram's first new builds in close to 40 years. At the June 2 event, the company christened the mv. Adrienne M. Moore, while the mv. Tom Cornwell was nearing completion at the shipyard. "I'm really excited for three reasons today," said Orrin Ingram, chairman of Ingram Barge Company and CEO of Ingram Industries. "First off, I started working full time at Ingram in 1983, and since I've been working for Ingram, this is the very first towboat we've built-1980 was the last time, I think, we built a boat." Ingram said the other two reasons he was excited were the two vessels' namesakes: Adrienne Moore and Tom Cornwell. "Our family takes naming boats very seriously," Ingram said. "It's absolutely the highest honor we can give." |