In a move that inland navigation industry members say “blindsided” them, Coast Guard officials informed them recently that the charter constituting the Towing Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC) was not going… Read More
Author: David Murray
An emergency transfer of $1.8 million from the St. Louis Engineer District to the Rock Island Engineer District, which was on the verge of running out of dredging… Read More
While the threat of an immediate shutdown of vital Upper Mississippi River dredging was temporarily averted over the weekend by an emergency transfer of funds from the St. Louis… Read More
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate, or WASDE, report, released August 12, predicted a much higher U.S. corn harvest than anticipated, sending… Read More
After an extensive consultative process with the inland waterways industry, the Coast Guard is proposing to amend the requirements regulating personnel permitted to serve as a person in charge… Read More
A dredging emergency in the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers led river industry representatives to appeal to members of Congress to urge the Corps to better distribute already-allocated emergency… Read More
Papers filed in federal court by lawyers for Bruce Oakley Inc. and Johnston’s Port 33 shed more light on the chain of events that led to two barges traveling… Read More
Scott Mandrell’s journey began as a story about boating “back then.” But it turned into a story about the river community today. Mandrell is a native son of… Read More
Situated on opposite sides of a westward-running stretch of the Upper Mississippi River, the towns of Moline, East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf… Read More
Davenport, Iowa, largest of the Quad Cities, received unwanted national attention when a temporary flood barrier failed April 30. The floods inundated several square blocks in Davenport’s downtown and… Read More
