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原文传递 Riverview Tug Service Adds Multiple Boats To Fleet

题名：	Riverview Tug Service Adds Multiple Boats To Fleet
正文语种：	eng
作者：	SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要：	With the purchase of three boats and the lease of two in 2022, River-view Tug Service is experiencing unprecedented growth. The company, at Upper Mississippi Mile 557 in Bellevue, Iowa, began in 1998 as Riverview Boat Store with two employees. It now has between 65 and 70, said Jeremy Put-man, president. "Originally we only had one tug, and we did assists at Lock 12," he said. "Now we have 11 tugs, and we do assists from Lock 2 to Lock 13." Putman credits the growth, in part, to a market for assist boats that grew at the same time as a high-water period in 2019 and workforce challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic afterward. "With the high water comes the need for more-skilled pilots on the Upper, and with the labor shortage finding these skilled pilots has been hard for companies, so guys have become accustomed to these assist tugs at the locks," Putman said. Riverview Tug Service is now the largest assist boat service on the Upper Mississippi, he said.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	136
期：	36
页码：	5-6