Holt Lock on the Black Warrior River reopened at 7 a.m. October 2, 102 days after cracks in a monolith caused an unscheduled shutdown. The Mobile Engineer District is planning… Read More
Author: David Murray
After a three-day walkout by 45,000 longshoremen along the East and Gulf coasts, members of the International Longshoremen’s Union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance representing shippers and terminal operators came… Read More
The St. Louis Inland River Seminar continued its steady growth with its third event September 16-17 at the Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) in downtown St. Louis. The seminar is hosted… Read More
About 300 people gathered aboard a barge at Modoc, Ill., next to the Jerry Costello Lock and Dam on the Kaskaskia River, to celebrate two anniversaries—as well as progress earned… Read More
(Editor’s note: This is the first of a planned periodic series on the data infrastructure underlying the physical infrastructure of the U.S. inland waterways system.) The symbol and logo for… Read More
On August 30, the full California legislature unanimously passed a bill strongly supported by the maritime industry, Assembly Bill 1122, that earlier had cleared the Senate by a vote of… Read More
The United States Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) both announced that shipbuilder Austal USA LLC has agreed to pay a $24 million civil penalty and… Read More
Three years after the passage and signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), most of its funding is still unspent, and the inland industry “remain[s] frustrated with the… Read More
The Senate on July 31 confirmed Army Maj. Gen. William H. “Butch” Graham Jr. as the next chief of engineers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Read More
In one of the year’s most closely watched cases, the Supreme Court on June 28 ruled 6-3 in favor of overturning a 40-year-old interpretive rule created by an earlier Supreme… Read More
