The captain of our canal barge trip summed up our week-long excursion aboard the intimate Spirit of Scotland boat in the Scottish Highlands in one word: charming. Has anyone ever described a ...

In a rare criminal conviction for a workplace fatality, a tugboat captain and his uncle’s Lemont business were found guilty Monday of negligence charges for the death of a crewhand killed in a ...

An Illinois man who was captain of a petroleum barge that exploded in a Chicago canal in 2005, killing a crew member, was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday, prosecutors said. Dennis Egan ...

A barge captain whose petroleum-carrying vessel exploded in 2005 in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, killing a crew member, was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison, officials said.

Captain Dennis Michael Egan and his family's company, Egan Marine Corp., were convicted Monday in the 2005 explosion of a petroleum barge in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that killed a crew ...

Port spokesman Matt Gresham said the captain, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at 12:50 a.m. Thursday. According to Gresham, the tugboat Cory Michael was pushing a barge with ...

And Captain Dennis Wasiewski just got ... What can be moved 60 miles by truck on a gallon of fuel can go more than 500 miles by tug and barge. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and upstate New York's ...

NEW ORLEANS - A tugboat captain died yesterday in New Orleans after a crane on a barge he was pushing struck a bridge and fell onto him, authorities said.

Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, ... Their other son, 19-year-old Zhu Gengpeng, Little Zhu, was working on this new one, being groomed by his dad to be a captain.

In an uncommon maritime case, an Illinois man who was captain of a petroleum barge that exploded in a Chicago canal in 2005, killing a crew member, was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday ...