The White House released an agreement on December 14 between the U.S. government and environmental non-profits, tribes and other parties that have been fighting and litigating for years over four… Read More
Author: David Murray
The year 2023 was another busy, productive but tumultuous one for the U.S. economy and the barge industry. The effects of the ongoing El Niño-Southern Oscillation whipsawed river levels and… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District saw the last tow of the 2023 navigation season depart as the mv. Thomas E. Erickson transited through Lock and Dam 10, near Guttenberg, Iowa,… Read More
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Pennsylvania have urged the Corps of Engineers to maintain and even increase levels of service to locks and dams along the Allegheny River. While… Read More
The United States Coast Guard issued a Safety Alert November 27 warning of the danger of cargoes of wood pellets spontaneously combusting. It said that in a two-week period, two… Read More
What’s happening to the world’s riverborne transportation systems? Within the past several years, all of the world’s major rivers that are also commercial traffic arteries have suffered either extreme drought,… Read More
The November 8 ribbon-cutting and open house on Helm Fertilizer’s expanded barge terminal at Helena, Ark., was a long time coming. The expansion more than doubles the length of its… Read More
On July 17, Russia repudiated its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement between the United Nations, Turkey, and Ukraine that allowed grain exports from Ukraine through the… Read More
Along with cooler temperatures, October brought some meager rain relief to the parched Midwest, especially the southern reaches of the Mississippi River basin. But the effects of the summer-long drought,… Read More
The St. Louis Inland River Seminar, held September 18-19, drew an attentive audience of maritime attorneys, insurers and brokers, barge operators and fleet managers to the downtown Missouri Athletic Club. Read More
