The New Orleans Engineer District will begin a 60-day closure at Algiers Lock on October 2 to repair damage incurred in a July 4 allision. On Independence Day,… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
The Consul General of Ukraine in Houston, Texas, Vitalii Tarasiuk, traveled to south Louisiana at the end of August to meet with officials from both the Port of… Read More
Houston, Pa.-based Campbell Transportation Company (CTC) recently celebrated the grand opening of its new southern base of operations at Four Oaks Place in the Uptown area of Houston, Texas. Read More
The board of commissioners of the Port of Corpus Christi voted in a special meeting September 6 to name the port’s chief financial officer Kent Britton as the… Read More
Birdon America Inc., the Denver, Colo.-based company that in October 2022 was awarded a $1.187 billion contract for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) program, has… Read More
A single barge has the carrying capacity of 16 rail cars or 70 tractor trailers, which makes moving cargoes on the inland waterways by far the most efficient and… Read More
Despite announcing just over a month and a half ago that the New Orleans Engineer District will need an additional $2.97 billion to complete the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain… Read More
Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group has received the formal notice to proceed from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to design and construct a new medium-class… Read More
The board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans voted unanimously at the board’s August 24 meeting to authorize Brandy Christian, the port’s president and CEO, to officially… Read More
Hurricane Idalia, the ninth named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall August 29 near Keaton Beach, Fla., in the state’s Big Bend area, with maximum sustained… Read More
