Posted on 7/12/2017
American Commercial Barge Line (ACBL), Jeffersonville, Ind., christened its newest towboat on Friday at the New Orleans riverfront. Built and designed by Bayou La Batre, Ala.-based Steiner Construction, the 88’x35’x11′ steel-hulled Jeff Kindl is named for ACBL’s vice president, Gulf Operations.
The barge line’s senior vice president and COO, Paul Tobin, went through a chronology of Kindl’s career beginning in 1970 with his first maritime job as a deckhand for Joliet, Ill.-based Valley Line. Tobin’s speech to the large crowd that had gathered in a ballroom at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside hotel centered on how Kindl is respected throughout the industry — depe...