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原文传递 Imperial River Transport Adds First New Vessel

题名：	Imperial River Transport Adds First New Vessel
正文语种：	eng
作者：	H. NELSON SPENCER
摘要：	In what may be the initial step toward replacing its aging fleet of 10 vessels, Imperial River Transport LLC recently put into service its first new towboat, the mv. John Austin. The Dunlevy, Pa.-based company has been successfully operating an assortment of older boats for the transportation of mostly coal on the Ohio and Monon-gahela rivers for many years. Those vessels-about 20 in total-were all built in the 1970s and 1980s. They include the currently operating mvs. Mary Rose, Hailey Nicole, Taylor Nicole, Miss Ivy Brynne, Ashley Marie, Stacy Lynn and Amber Brittany, ranging from 1,410 hp. to 4,600 hp. "At the end of the day," said Dave Johnson, the owner and president of Imperial River Transport, "we plan to have a fleet of all new vessels." Johnson, 58, who comes from a family of rivermen, started working on the river for his father when he was 11 years old, scraping paint and otherwise maintaining the boats during the summer. In 1984, with his pilots license and high school diploma in hand, he went to work on the 850 hp. Debbie Sue. While it was his father, Bucky, who founded the company, it was his grandfather, he said, who was mostly responsible for his work ethic. "Whatever you do, you'd better be working," he remembers him saying. "He was something."
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	136
期：	20
页码：	5-5