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Top 25 Tugboat operators based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 135 tugboat operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,965 professional contacts across them, including 1,502 with verified work emails. Seattle is the largest hub.
This list covers tugboat operators headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
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The 25 largest tugboat operators based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 619 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moran Towing is a leading provider of ship docking, marine transportation, and LNG activities, as well as contract, specialty, and general towing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unsurpassed for 160 Years We operate a fleet of more than 60 tugboats, crew boats, and barges in 13 locations along the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centerline Logistics is a leading provider of marine transportation services in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Vane Brothers Company has served the maritime industry for more than 125 years, providing a wide range of services that includes ship bunkering and lightering; the delivery of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blessey Marine owns and operates one of the youngest multi-faceted inland tank barge and towing vessel fleets in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kirby Offshore Marine is the largest United States operator of coastal tank barges and towing vessels participating in the regional distribution of refined products, black oil…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “G&H Towing Company is one of the oldest and most progressive towing companies on the Texas Gulf Coast, and we operate an outstanding fleet of over harbor tugs with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reinauer Transportation Companies is a leader in the maritime industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sause Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1940, Parker Towing Company is one of the largest barge lines in the southeastern United States, operating a fleet of towboats and over 350 open and covered hopper…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Company History E.N.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stevens Towing Company is a family-owned shipyard and midsize freight transportation company based on Yonges Island, SC just south of Charleston with regional offices in Edenton…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A family owned business established in 1948, that has been operating tugs and barges from Puget Sound to the Aleutian Islands, from Arctic Alaska to the Hawaiian Islands and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1942, Crescent Towing has had one overriding goal in mind, complete customer satisfaction by doing the best job possible with the finest crew, equipment and support…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Great Lakes Towing Company is the largest U.S-flag tugboat company on the Great Lakes and provides services such as local harbor towing, docking and undocking, interport…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a "tugboat" company that prides itself on providing safe and professional service over a wide spectrum of tugboat and towing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marine Travelift is the world's premier and most experienced manufacturer of boat handling equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pacific Maritime Group, Inc.(PMG) is a full-service marine contractor with the largest barge fleet on the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1921, Houston pilots have maneuvered vessels safely and efficiently to and from docks via the narrow and congested Houston Ship Channel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dunlap Towing Company is family and employee owned and has been providing dependable marine transportation services for 90 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Illinois Marine Towing (IMT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canal Barge Company, provides towing, fleeting and shipyard services along the Illinois Waterway.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our company works to deliver safe, dependable services to our customers and has been operating under the same management for nearly 20 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “McDonough Marine Service is the proven leader in the marine transportation and logistics industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: tugboat operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names tugboat operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tugboat operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tugboat operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Tugboat operators based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 135 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among tugboat operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “tugboat operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names tugboat operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among tugboat operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,502 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names tugboat operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many tugboat operators are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 135 tugboat operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Moran Towing Corporation, headquartered in New Canaan, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most tugboat operators?
Seattle leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (6) and New Orleans (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,502 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 135 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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