Job Description:

• 1) Dispatches tugboats to guide ships entering or leaving port and to tow barges and log rafts: Receives written or oral customer request for services.

• 2) Determines equipment required, such as tugs, barges, or derricks according to size, location and work performed.

• 3) Selects tugboat captain from roster and notifies captain of order requirements, using radiotelephone.

• 4) Obtains ship berthing and bunkering permits from port authorities.

• 5) Reviews weather data and navigation charts and estimates time required to perform requested services.

• 6) Maintains records and prepares bills for services.

• 7) May notify captain of tugboat by radiotelephone of order changes.

• 8) May dispatch work crews to tugboats in response to emergency requests from captain.