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New Orleans-based Harbor Towing & Fleeting (HTF), which has been providing barge fleeting and tripping services in the Crescent City for the past 52 years, held a christening ceremony at the company's Star Fleet below Algiers Point November 11 for the mv. Jimmy Baer. The boat honors Jimmy Baer Jr., longtime HTF port captain, whose family has been part of the Harbor Towing story since the company's founding. "He's been with this company over 40 years," said HTF CEO Todd Clower. "His father worked with my grandfather, so Jimmy's been with this company his whole life. He knows everything there is to know about this part of the river, because he's lived it." Gerald D. Clower, Todd Clow-er's grandfather, formed the company in January 1970, and it was with that Clower that Baer's father worked from the start. Gerald E. "Jerry" Clower-Todd Clower's father, who now serves as president of HTF-joined the company in 1983. Todd Clower, who owns the company with his father, has been with the company since 2009. |