ABOUT US

Services

Dunlap Towing Company is a marine towing contractor providing general towing services to the maritime industry. Our service areas include the Puget Sound and lower British Columbia and coastwise from California to Alaska, as well as offshore. We have served the forest products industry for over eighty years and for the last thirty years have provided reliable tug and barge service towing general freight barges to Alaska and Hawaii. Some of our more remote and far-off destinations have included the Alaskan Arctic, Far East to China, Korea, Russia, the Philippines and the US Gulf and East Coasts.

Company History

Dunlap Towing Company is a family and employee owned business founded in 1925 by Gene Dunlap. Gene started the business when he bought out a La Conner tugboat operation consisting of three small tug boats and several small scows.  At the time, the company was primarily used for hauling fish, grain and straw from the Skagit River delta and Skagit farmlands to the markets and flour mills of Seattle.

Over the next fifty years, Dunlap expanded into log towing, gravel barging and various other services on the Skagit and Snohomish Rivers and around the Puget Sound.  In 1978, Dunlap, along with two other partners, formed Northland Services, a freight company specializing in containerized and break bulk freight barging to Alaska and Hawaii.

The Company

Today Dunlap’s operations involve dry land log handling facilities in La Conner and Olympia; a wood chip reload, harbor log storage and vessel assist services in Everett; log handling and vessel assist services in Tacoma and Olympia and ship assist capability in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.  We operate twenty-five tugboats and several inland and ocean chip and deck barges with over 200 employees.