The Mobile Engineer District’s Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project management team held a ribbon cutting and grand opening October 5 for the waterway’s new Waterway Management Center, located on a bluff overlooking… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
All eyes in the greater New Orleans region remain on a wedge of salt water pushing its way up the Lower Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the… Read More
A year has passed since the U.S. Coast Guard awarded Denver, Colo.-based Birdon America Inc. an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity firm fixed price contract for the detail design and construction of the… Read More
Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the Port of Terrebonne met in Houma,… Read More
In the early 2000s, the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) made a move into the container-handling business when it converted one of its break bulk terminals to a new… Read More
Salt water in the Mississippi River is continuing to move upstream, threatening the fresh water supply of communities along the last 100 miles of the river. Salt water is more… Read More
Nine months ago, the board of commissioners of the Port of South Louisiana (PortSL) made waves by voting to approve an agreement for the port to purchase the former site… Read More
Just like last year, the Mississippi River is stuck on low, with much of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys experiencing extreme drought conditions. In the last 100 miles of the… Read More
On August 18, 1873, Capt. William Henry Harrison Benyaurd, an 1863 graduate of West Point and a decorated Union Army veteran of the Civil War, opened an office of the… Read More
The Liebherr Group, headquartered in Switzerland with operations in and historic ties to Germany, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Miami branch. Liebherr, made up of 13 segments that… Read More
