MOBRO Marine, Inc.
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| Private | |
| Industry | construction equipment |
| Founded | 1962 (as Moody Brothers of Jacksonville) |
| Founder | Maxey Dell Moody, Jr. |
| Headquarters | Green Cove Springs, Florida |
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Key people
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John Rowland (President) John Hall (Vice President and COO) Steve Cumella (Vice President and CFO) Maxey Dell Moody IV (Vice President) |
| Services | Barge transport, Cranes, Heavy machinery |
| Website | www |
MOBRO Marine, Inc. is an American marine and construction equipment business headquartered in Green Cove Springs, Florida. It was established in 1962 as Moody Brothers of Jacksonville by Maxey Dell Moody, Jr. Moody Bros. was initially a sister company of M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc. where it would handle the marine business and rental of large construction equipment. In 1992, as the result of a corporate spinoff of the Pablo Creek Marina and other assets it was incorporated and renamed as MOBRO Marine, Inc.
In 1962 Moody Brothers of Jacksonville was established by Max Moody, Jr. to handle the marine business and rental of large construction equipment of its sister company M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc. The Moody brothers, Maxey Dell Moody, Jr. and Muller Pearson Moody, were the only sons of M. D. Moody who took over M. D. Moody & Sons after his death in 1949. Moody Brothers contributed to the growth of M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc. by way of tug and barge marine projects. By 1984 Moody Brothers possessed over 100 barges such as material hauling or load line barges. Moody Brothers, like its sister company M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc., has a large rental fleet of cranes and other construction equipment but with a focus on marine services.
In 1987 the MOBRO 4000 incident occurred when a barge owned by MOBRO Marine full of garbage from New York City was turned away by three countries and six states while making national headlines along with a nightly gag of a map tracker by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
In 1992 Moody Brothers had a corporate spin-off of the Pablo Creek Marina by M. D. Moody & Sons under Max Moody III and was incorporated as MOBRO Marine, Inc. In 1992 MOBRO also purchased a dry-dock marina called Arlington Marina. In 1994 M. D. Moody purchased an industrial shipping yard for its subsidiary Moody Fabrication & Machine, Inc.. MOBRO Marine also used the shipping yard for various operations. By 2010 MOBRO became the Kobelco Crawler crane dealer of Florida. In March 2010 a MOBRO barge was used to transport a cable from Nassau to Exuma.
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