In between a schedule of Capitol Hill appearances and Zoom meetings that has not eased up despite coronavirus restrictions, Jennifer Carpenter, CEO of The American Waterways Operators, took time to… Read More
Author: David Murray
Two American river cruise passenger companies have announced their cruise schedules for summer 2020. American Cruise Lines will be first out of the gate, with cruises on its vessel American… Read More
The first all-virtual FreightWeekSTL event was held May 18–22 in St. Louis, packing in a convention’s worth of content into five days. This year’s event was originally to have been… Read More
Heavy rains over the weekend of May 16–17 led to high water and flooding on the Illinois River and parts of the Upper Mississippi River. The Illinois River was under… Read More
The River School in Memphis, Tenn., is already offering one non-virtual class and will fully reopen in June, according to Bill Kline, president and CEO of The River School. The… Read More
Last August, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed extending the amount of time operators of “certain high-speed vessels”—pilot boats and some smaller vessels—have to comply with the upcoming switch to clean-burning… Read More
The COVID-19 virus is affecting a lot of businesses. But Tom Spalj wants customers to know that his company, Big Bags USA, is up and ready for business. “I’m sitting… Read More
Assembling an E-Crane usually takes anywhere from three to four weeks. But in a record-setting display of teamwork and virtuosity, a team of 10 people with members from both E-Crane… Read More
“Mother nature cooperated” this spring to allow the Corps of Engineers to get a jump on some equipment staging related to this summer’s scheduled closures of locks and dams on… Read More
After resisting two key safety recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board for years, the U.S. Coast Guard has committed to adopting them in the wake of the investigation into… Read More
