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The company already has a significant backlog of work, with three year's worth of towboat orders and $12 million in pending barge orders.

At issue was whether a taxpayer could take a current deduction for (or needed to capitalize) the costs of its cyclical maintenance inspections of its towboat engines, which were typically performed every three or four years.

The FBI then stopped the towboat to investigate the incident.

It takes patience and understanding to be a good towboat driver.

"We worked really closely with the Corps and some of the big commercial lines," Myers said, to avoid construction during the towboat pilots' peak quarter.

The M/V Tanana, a towboat built in the 1950s and operated for years by Yutana Barge Lines and later Crowley, was laid up at the end of the 2011 season.

Thea's fleet increased to 200 boats when she began to transport logs with towboats. During World War I, her business expanded and she bought interests in a Seattle towboat company.

The task of towing the new barges between Seattle and Whittier has been contracted to Western Towboat of Seattle.