Bender wins tug contract

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair plans to hire 450 new workers, 200 of them in Mobile, to build three tug barges worth $232.5 million for Maritrans Inc. Each articulated tug barge unit, a type of powerful 12,000-horsepower workboat, will be worth $77.5 million and able to carry 335,000 barrels of petroleum products. The tugs will be […]