Author: Frank McCormack

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and members of the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), along with state and federal leaders, broke ground August 10 on the Mid-Barataria Sediment… Read More

Perry Nicosia, the district attorney for St. Bernard Parish, the community immediately downriver from New Orleans, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the parish government that challenges the jurisdictional… Read More

The venerable dredge McFarland’s days indeed are numbered now that the Philadelphia Engineer District has awarded Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group a firm-fixed-price contract “for the design-build of a… Read More

NextDecade Corporation, a Houston-based energy company focused on sustainable LNG and carbon capture projects, has given Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) the green light to proceed with work to… Read More

The sheer frequency of allisions at the Brazos River Floodgates on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) near Freeport, Texas, is astonishing. Speaking to GIWW stakeholders who gathered in New Orleans… Read More

Day 1 of the annual seminar of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA), held in New Orleans July 27-28, was infrastructure rich, with reports from Tracy Zea, president and CEO… Read More

Port Houston is planning to relocate its administrative office from its longtime home near the Buffalo Bayou turning basin, just above the 610 bridge, to Houston’s Fifth Ward in the… Read More

John W. Stone Oil Distributor LLC, a leading dockside, midstream and offshore fuel supplier on the Lower Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast since 1946, is leading by example with… Read More

In July 2021, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new hurricane protection system designed to shield communities along the southwestern shore of Lake Pontchartrain from… Read More