Twenty-two-year-old Miles Harris grew up around the towboat and barge industry. His father, Roger, is a senior vice president at Magnolia Marine Transport in Vicksburg, Miss., and Harris has… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
Scott Bridge Company is in the midst of 15 days of daytime repairs at 14 Mile Bridge on the Mobile River, which connects the Tennessee-Tombigbee and Black Warrior-Tombigbee waterways… Read More
The lockmaster at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and Dam, also known as Lock 1, on the Red River near Marksville, La., discovered a crack in the miter gate… Read More
When the New Orleans Engineer District updated its salt water wedge tracker October 9, the leading edge—or toe—of the wedge intruding from the Gulf of Mexico had retreated back… Read More
The Port of South Louisiana (PortSL) is delaying its application to the Louisiana State Bond Commission for approval to sell revenue bonds to help cover the cost of acquiring… Read More
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… Read More
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… 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… 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… 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… Read More
