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...Indiana-based ACL is one of the US’ largest owner-operators of commercial barges, with some 2,300 barges and 120 tow boats working along 12,000 miles of the country’s inland waterways....
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...Villages of bamboo houses, raised on stilts of teak, jostle at the water’s edge between the colossi of acacia trees; tugs haul trains of barges loaded with oil drums and timber....
...Just after high tide at 2.45pm an armada of Thames barges, tugs, narrowboats, pleasure cruisers, skiffs and rowboats set off from Albert Bridge....
...I am Huck Finn, bloated with riverside contentment, when the line tugs and tugs again....
...His piloting days go back to the end of the steamboat era, when New York Harbor was an accident-rife cauldron of tugs, transport ships, barges, passenger ferries, ocean liners and all manner of minor vessels...
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