The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny’s newest tug, CLEVELAND was issued its Unit­ed States Coast Guard (USCG) Cer­tifi­cate of Inspec­tion (COI) under Sub­chap­ter M.

As of July 20, 2018, all tow­ing ves­sels nation­wide are required to com­ply with the pro­vi­sions of the new 46 CFR Sub­chap­ter M.  There is an ini­tial phase in peri­od for com­pli­ance and even­tu­al issuances of the COIs.  The Tow­ing Com­pa­ny has been work­ing with the USCG dur­ing the on board­ing process and now sched­ul­ing inspec­tions for the entire tow­ing fleet.

“We’re excit­ed to be at the fore­front of our indus­tries’ efforts to imple­ment the new safe­ty require­ments of Sub­chap­ter M. From begin­ning to end, our own effort to meet obtain the Cer­tifi­cate of Inspec­tion was a part­ner­ship with the Amer­i­can Bureau of Ship­ping and Coast Guard Marine Safe­ty Unit in Cleve­land. We look for­ward to work­ing in part­ner­ship with these orga­ni­za­tion as we con­tin­ue to cer­ti­fy our tugs,” com­ments Lind­say Dew, Direc­tor of Oper­a­tions, The Great Lakes Tow­ing Company.

 

L to R: Robie Moor­house (USCG), Lind­say Dew (GLT), Nick­o­las Suvak (USCG)

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