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… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
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
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
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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read More
