In a ceremony held July 12 at the U.S. Army’s Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss., Brig. Gen. Kimberly Peeples, already a member of the Mississippi River… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
Communication and partnerships. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) stakeholders would agree those are two words that have defined the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) for years. And in his two years… Read More
The Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA), the trade organization representing stakeholders of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), will hold its annual seminar July 26–28 in New Orleans. The event will… Read More
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a public entity charged with power generation in the Tennessee River Valley, has put a new Tier 4 towboat into service, marking a first for… Read More
For the second time in less than a year, the New Orleans Engineer District is planning to construct a sill across the Mississippi River to block the intrusion of salt… Read More
About 6 p.m. on July 4, a towing vessel pushing a loaded barge entered Algiers Lock in New Orleans from the Mississippi River, bound for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW),… Read More
Around 9:30 a.m. on June 26, 2022, a fire broke out aboard the mv. Mary Dupre, which was pushing one barge of biodiesel along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) west… Read More
Port Houston, the nation’s fifth largest container port by TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), extended its reach well inland in June with the addition of intermodal container service by both Union… Read More
The Eighth Coast Guard District has a new commander, following the retirement of Rear Adm. Richard Timme and the installation of Rear Adm. David Barata. Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of… Read More
Maj. Gen. Diana Holland, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division and president of the Mississippi River Commission, was in the New Orleans Engineer District in… Read More
