Since December, the drydocks of Newt Marine Service of Dubuque, Iowa, have been busy with three repowering projects. These are the first three of seven repowers Newt plans on completing… Read More
Author: David Murray
Missouri River management practices are the focus of a new bill in Congress, as well as of a lawsuit whose latest phase will take place in June. Missouri Sen. Roy… Read More
As the scale of the coronavirus challenge is coming into focus, the World Health Organization finally declared it a pandemic after what some critics deemed unaccountable delays. Trade organizations around… Read More
There are many paths to safety awareness, but towboat operators—and especially, vessel captains—need to be sure that all crewmembers are thoroughly familiar with what’s in the vessel’s towing safety management… Read More
A draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Columbia River System, the culmination of a years-long process, rejected calls to breach dams on the lower Snake River. The Corps of… Read More
The lack of an effective maintenance program that might have detected a clutch system operating at only 40 percent of efficiency was responsible for the February 13, 2019, collision between… Read More
“Having a Towing Safety Management System is no good unless you follow it.” Those words, or variants of them, have probably been spoken at every single meeting on Subchapter M… Read More
The first Lake Pepin ice measurements of the season on February 12 in the Upper Mississippi River showed lower ice thickness, following what scientists say has been the warmest January… Read More
A newly released study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments says the sad state of the U.S. blue-water merchant marine is threatening necessary Defense Department capabilities and calls… Read More
Dee Dee Whittaker brings to her new assignment handling Waterways Journal advertising accounts in the Southeast region a formidable background in sales. A Paducah native, Whittaker worked in Atlanta and… Read More
