Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, became the first military leader to be fired by President Donald Trump’s administration. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamin… Read More
Author: David Murray
It’s been just over five years since OpenTug was founded in 2019, and so far, the company has no direct competitors. The software company focuses on maximizing efficiencies of barge… Read More
Anticipating efforts by the incoming Trump administration to reverse some of the state’s climate agenda, California has withdrawn its requests to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce emission mandates… Read More
A new year always opens up exhilarating vistas. This year also brings more uncertainties than usual. The new presidential administration has promised to undo much of what the previous… Read More
With only days remaining until their current contract expired, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) announced it had reached an agreement with the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), a group of port… Read More
Japan’s Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel both filed a lawsuit on January 6 against President Joe Biden after he intervened to cancel a proposed buyout of the latter by the… Read More
Chinese state-run shipping company and port operator COSCO Shipping Holdings is protesting its inclusion on a U.S. Defense Department list of “military-linked” companies. Inclusion on the list carries no penalties… Read More
The mayor of St. Charles, Mo., located on the Missouri River just west of St. Louis, is reviving efforts to relocate the Arabia Steamboat Museum, a Kansas City museum centered… Read More
The Port of Winona, Minn., has officially joined the Corn Belt Ports team. Geographically, the Corn Belt Ports are a group of federally recognized ports in the heart of the… Read More
During World War II, smaller shipyards along the Mississippi River and its tributaries built thousands of support vessels for the U.S. Navy—notably the landing craft used during Operation Overlord… Read More
