With more than 44 years of experience, Alan Bates, Maintenance Supervisor, Cooper Consolidated, is responsible for keeping the company's cranes afloat with booms in the air.
The Grain Express is the second of four vessels that MMI is scheduled to deliver to Plimsoll Marine, one of the Lower Mississippi River’s premier push boat operators.
In October a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) crew was performing maintenance at a navigational aid on the bank of the Mississippi River across from Cooper Consolidated’s Darrow fleet and Mile 175 when they discovered a Civil War era cannonball in the mud.