MN100: TPG Marine Enterprises, LLC

The Company:
TPG Marine Enterprises, LLC is an operations, logistics and consulting company that specializes in all aspects of cargo movement on the Inland Waterways System. The firm owns and operates eight facilities in the Midwest and has about 200 employees. TPG Marine has interests in terminals servicing the Ohio, Green and Illinois Rivers along with a shipyard in Chicago.  

The Case:
TPG brings innovation, efficiency, professionalism and harbor service/shipyard infrastructure (new dry docks, new cranes, new boats, and SOTA cleaning equipment to inland rivers facilities. Offering unique access to both the Great Lakes and inland rivers, TPG is adding a third full size dry dock to its Chicago Dry Dock operation which -- in tandem with another large dry dock -- will allow full dry dock repair of 300-foot tank barges without having to go all the way to Sturgeon Bay, WI or Cleveland, OH. TPG continues to expand its harbor service operations (including harbor management software) and through maritime construction.