Higman's roots go back to 1917 when an Orange, Texas pharmacist, J. W. Higman, and a partner Louis Smaihall, formed Higman Towing Company.  The Company was designed to move logs on the Sabine River to an Orange lumber mill and water to various Louisiana locations. The firm started with two small tugs and three barges. When the demand for movement of water and logs waned and the demand for crude oil and petroleum products grew the company shifted its focus.

Sailing Ship "CITY OF ORANGE" was constructed across from the original Higman, Orange, TX office in 1917.

In 1953, Higman bought 3 boats and 10 barges, the entire marine fleet of the former Pan American Refining Company. Throughout the 1960's - 1990's Higman continuously kept modernizing its fleet, adding new boats and barges.

The present owners purchased Higman Higman Marine in December 1986.

In 1997, Higman acquired Maryland Marine Inc., which expanded the fleet by 40 percent. In recent years, the firm has continued building boats and barges, increasing both horsepower and barge capacity.

Do you like to read when you have down time? Then next time you are in Channelview or Orange office stop by to check out our library. Each office keeps a book shelf available with 100's of used books.

So come in, pick up something new and drop of a book for someone else to read.

The drop off ramp at Hobby Airport will be closed for construction. The ramp was leaking water onto one of the baggage areas below.   You may ask "Why are they starting this just before the Holidays?" The answer: the construction is expected to take a year; so hopefully it will be done before the 2012 Holidays.

For the next year all passengers being dropped off at Hobby Airport will be diverted to the second floor of the parking garage. There they will have to tote their bags across a walkway to the main terminal. Curbside check in is only available for those traveling on Southwest in the Passenger Pick up area (ground level). Drivers picking up passengers are encouraged to use the cell phone lot.

Each year nine million passengers travel on one of the six airlines operating from Hobby Airport.  Seventy Nine percent of those passengers are orginating from or have a final destination of Houston.  Only 21 percent are on connecting flights through Hobby.  The Airport generates $4.5 billion dollars every year for the Houston economy.

Please allow for extra time getting into the airport. It is recommended 15-30 minutes more than the airlines recommended time.

Flying crew changes will be adjusted accordingly.

100 done....

This issue is complete.

Kelly and I have had a great time writing these newsletters during the last four years.  We look forward to continuing as long as they will let us.  Though subject matter does not always come easily, somehow we gets done at the end of the day.

Once it the Newsletter is out, we usually find a misspelled word or a phrase or two out of place....yes we are not perfect.  We appreciate all the supportive comments we have had from our crews since the start.

As always, you are welcome to comment and we look forward to any material you would like to see added to our next issues. 

We are looking for new authors all the time!  If you have something that would benefit our crews in our daily operation, please write it up.    

And thanks again for all the great pictures that come in!  They add much to the Training Newsletter.

Once again, thanks for the support during the last 100 issues!

Have a great and very safe week!