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原文传递 Corn Island Shipyard Builds On 33 Years Of Success

题名：	Corn Island Shipyard Builds On 33 Years Of Success
正文语种：	eng
作者：	SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要：	Building on its 33-year history, Corn Island Shipyard is continuing to grow. Located at Mile 734 on the Ohio River in Grandview, Ind., Corn Island began with a single coal dock, piecing together the shipyard from equipment found at auctions in the 1980s and launching its first barge in 1991. Through the years it has expanded, and the pace has picked up growth over the past year and a half, President Don Foertsch said. Within that time, the company has added roughly 25 people to the payroll, bringing its workforce to close to 100 employees. "We have added equipment to make us more efficient and more productive," Foertsch said. That has included a 300-ton crawler crane as well as a couple of overhead cranes in the shop building. The shipyard is staying busy. "Right now we're building a couple of deck barges and a dredge tender," Foertsch said. "It's the fifth one that we've built like this, which is our design, and we're building a couple of dump scows." The dredge tender, being built for a commercial customer, was designed in-house by the late FM. "Bud" Johnson, a naval architect and marine engineer who served as general manager until his passing in 2017. Under Johnson's leadership, the shipyard gained a reputation for its quality workmanship and good relationships with customers, Foertsch said, and that reputation has kept customers coming back, counting on Corn Island to meet their needs. "It boils down to having good people working for you," he said.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	134
期：	51