According to the company website, Ingram operates nearly 4,000 barges with a fleet of over 80 linehaul vessels and over 30 tug boats.

In 1994 Forbes magazine listed Ingram as the 14th largest privately held company in the United States.

They expanded into off-shore marine construction and started moving other types of cargo, among them coal and crushed stone.

Perhaps the most famous Ingram barge was ING 4727, which broke free of its moorings during Hurricane Katrina and landed in what had been a residential neighborhood of the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.

In 2008, a federal district court in New Orleans found that Ingram Barge was not responsible or liable for the breakaway of the ING 4727.

Competition includes Kirby, American Commercial Lines, Higman Barge, SCF Marine and ARTCO.