The 57th annual Tennessee River Valley Association and Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council meeting October 9-10 in Franklin, Tenn., included an update on projects along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers as… Read More
Archive: 2023
Twenty-two-year-old Miles Harris grew up around the towboat and barge industry. His father, Roger, is a senior vice president at Magnolia Marine Transport in Vicksburg, Miss., and Harris has… Read More
A group of offshore wind developers is sounding the alarm over what they say is underinvestment in ports that service wind farms. They say they can’t meet the… Read More
Germany-based international logistics firm Rhenus presented the Ernst Kramer, a 50-year-old vessel the group converted to be fully remote-controlled, at the German National Maritime Conference on September 14-15. Read More
Scott Bridge Company is in the midst of 15 days of daytime repairs at 14 Mile Bridge on the Mobile River, which connects the Tennessee-Tombigbee and Black Warrior-Tombigbee waterways… Read More
The lockmaster at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and Dam, also known as Lock 1, on the Red River near Marksville, La., discovered a crack in the miter gate… Read More
In the September 18, 2023, issue of The Waterways Journal, this column detailed the Kansas City Socony and mentioned that it had initiated the first oil tow into… Read More
Recent articles in some New Orleans news sources have questioned the role of deepening the Mississippi River shipping channel in the intrusion of the saltwater wedge upriver. The stories… Read More
Washington, D.C.—House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana narrowly won the Republican conference’s nomination for speaker but remained short of the 217 votes needed ultimately to win the gavel. Read More
When the New Orleans Engineer District updated its salt water wedge tracker October 9, the leading edge—or toe—of the wedge intruding from the Gulf of Mexico had retreated back… Read More
