Turn Services, a New Orleans-based provider of barge towing and fleeting services, has filed a permit application with the New Orleans Engineer District to expand the company’s barge… Read More
Archive: 2023
The pieces are falling into place for construction to begin this year on Louisiana’s massive Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, planned for the west bank of the Mississippi River near the… Read More
BargeOps has announced the launch of its BargeOps Liquids module, designed specifically for liquid shipments. Liquid shipments need an effective management solution ensuring accurate and compliant reporting, the… Read More
By Robert Murray President, National Association of Waterfront Employers Robert Murray As the U.S. turns its attention to improving the health and safety of our communities, marine terminal… Read More
The Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI), an agency serving both blue-water and brown-water mariners in the United States, has expanded its team of full-time chaplains with the hire of the… Read More
The United States Coast Guard’s Office of Commercial Vessel Compliance has released an update to Work Instruction CG CVC-WI-010(3), which provides guidance to officers in charge of marine inspection… Read More
For this special Wheelhouse issue of The Wateways Journal we will look at two important “firsts” that changed the lives of pilots for the better. In late… Read More
Each February in the “Wheelhouse” special issue of The Waterways Journal, we feature profiles of some of the captains who helm commercial vessels on the waterways. We hope you’ll enjoy… Read More
From pulling trap at an affluent gun club when he was a kid in Helena, Ark., to bringing a newly built towboat out of a shipyard located in Greenville,… Read More
Chad Verdin always knew he would wind up working on towboats. Reflecting on the 23 years he’s been a captain and the years on deck before that, he calls… Read More
