Barges

The diversity and size of our barge fleet provide our customers with multiple options to achieve the most efficient and economic transportation of cargo.

The construction and design of FMT’s barges, whether transiting as a unit or as a one barge tow, matched with our modern towboats, maximize operation and fuel efficiency.

30K Clean Service

FMT operates a fleet of high cubic capacity, double hull, all steel tank barges for use in bulk transportation of dangerous and hazardous clean service liquid products on the inland waterways. These barges are built with the latest in cargo handling equipment, including monitoring of fluid levels, both electronically and visually. 

LPG

FMT’s Pressure Vessel Class barges allow customers to utilize a two or three bottle configuration, both with a capacity of over 16,000 bbls. Rated at 260# PSI for PP Mix products, these modern barges provide both a stable platform and a high level of product containment for our customers’ needs in the transportation of liquefied petroleum gas.

Chem

The Chem Class barges provide a safe, protected envelope for the carriage of over 250 dangerous and hazardous products. A 3# PSI cargo tank top, a deeper hull (12.5′), an additional sight glass located over the pump sump, 100% welded external frames, and slanted pipelines to drain product back into the barge, are just a few of the special features that are found in an FMT Chem Class barge.

30K Low Profile

The FMT Chicago and Lake Class barges are double hulled, all steel, welded tank barges able to safely navigate low-lying bridges without the need of ballast water. This class has an ice strengthened bow rake in order to fight the severe ice conditions commonly found in this area of operation.

Heater

Florida Marine’s all new, 30,000 bbl, hybrid, Slurry/Hot Oil Class barges are unique to the inland barge community, as they provide the ability to safely transport all grades of Sub-Chapter D products from gasoline to asphalt and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast in the most severe weather conditions. Designed and built to maximize the customer’s needs with a 60” high cargo trunk to assure maximum cargo loading, this series of barges can answer the call from light to heavy heated products. Here are just a few of the many unique features of this Twenty-First Century barge:

• Redundant, Double Set, Dual Runs of Stainless Steel Thermal Oil Heating Coils located in the cargo space of all six cargo tanks
• Eight Million BTU, ‘Volcanic’ High Efficiency Heater
• Maximum Routing for Rivers, Lakes, Bays, and Sounds
• 19’8” Light Ship Vertical Clearance
• Ice Strengthened Bow Rake design, for a safer, less dangerous transit in harsh ice conditions
• Hi-Lo Pumping System; twin, identical, 429 HP, all mechanical Mitsubishi, EPA-Tier III, USCG-C1D1, diesel engines
• Vapor, Overfill Protection and Prevention System

Hopper

At FMT, we operate open and covered hoppers to fit the demands of whatever product you need us to haul. FMT’s hopper barges are primarily of double-hull construction so that the sides and bottom of the cargo hold are separated by void spaces from the hull. These barges have a boxed, single-raked or double-raked hull configuration and the hoppers may be covered or open. Our covers are a roll-top lift-off (stacking) type so that covers protect the cargo from the elements. Bulk cargoes include commodities such as grain, coal, sugar, steel, aggregates and timber products.