Crew members stow a sail aboard the tall ship Picton Castle as it’s docked in New Orleans April 22. (Photo by Frank McCormack) Nine high school students and… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
Laborde Products Inc., the Covington, La.-based engine supplier and diesel pump and generator builder for the marine and industrial markets, celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this month with a… Read More
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Keh-Yen Lin, executive vice president of Taiwan-based Formosa Petrochemical Corporation, announced April 23 Formosa’s plans to build a $9.4 billion chemical manufacturing complex… Read More
A dredge working in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) near Matagorda Bay and the Port O’Connor (Texas) Jetties struck a natural gas pipeline April 17, igniting gas from the… Read More
Demonstration project in 2016 showed that agitating the channel could produce adequate depths for navigation. (File photo by Frank McCormack) The Port of Morgan City, located at the… Read More
The Port of New Orleans was onto something when it named its annual commodities event the “Cargo Connections Conference.” From start to finish, the conference emphasized and reinforced the… Read More
Capt. Matt Lagarde demonstrates line-throwing techniques. (Photos by Frank McCormack) Nearly 150 high schoolers gathered at the Port of New Orleans March 28 for RiverWorks Discovery’s Who Works… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Vessel Traffic Service Lower Mississippi River on April 12 closed the Mississippi River between Miles 91 and 101 after a vessel reportedly struck a pier… Read More
Louisiana’s Mississippi River Delta and coast have made headlines of late, thanks to a pair of studies that examine flooding and coastal erosion, a state-issued coastal quarantine and the… Read More
The Port of New Orleans hosted its 10th annual Cargo Connections Conference last week, with shippers, ocean carriers and industry leaders gathering in New Orleans’ Warehouse District April… Read More
