Boat City USA

Located in Lafayette, La., Aries Marine Corporation provides lift and supply boats for the oil and gas industry. The lift boats division offers variety of services, such as maintenance and repair, pipeline laying, well hook-ups, rig tending, structural repairs, and salvage work-over and seismic operation. Its supply vessels carry a wide variety of cargo, and transport fuel, drilling fluids, cement, liquid mud, casing, drill pip and tubes. Founded in 1981, the company has provided lift boats and utility vessels to various oil companies, including the Military Sealift Command and the U.S. Navy. It is operational in the Gulf of Mexico, the West Coast, Hawaii and Alaska.

Weber Marine offers a variety of harbor services to customers on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. It is a family-owned business that provides a variety of services, such as barge fleeting, anchor salvage, dock maintenance, repair and crewboat operations. The company offers a variety of floating cranes equipped with hook and clam buckets for lifting and in transfer of bulk cargo. Weber Marine also provides fleet boats to shift river barges on and off tow and to support mid-stream cargo loading and discharge operations. The company offers crew boats for delivery of ship's stores and provisions to vessels at anchor and alongside docks on the river. Its office is located in Convent, La.