Around 7:40 p.m. December 29, the mv. Patrick J. Studdert, an 87-foot by 32-foot towboat operated by Buffalo Marine Service, collided with the bulk cargo ship Clara B near Lower… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
A little over a year ago, We Work The Waterways (WWTW), an educational outreach program of Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals Inc. (IRPT), didn’t even exist. Now, with 2024 in… Read More
While still in office, former President Jimmy Carter, who died December 29 at the age of 100, vacationed on the historic steamboat Delta Queen for a week beginning on August… Read More
John W. Stone Oil Distributor, a family-owned New Orleans-based supplier of fuels, lubricants, specialty chemicals and fresh water for the offshore, coastal and inland markets, recently took delivery of a… Read More
Waterways Council Inc. (WCI), a Washington D.C.-based maritime industry advocacy group, held its 21st annual Waterways Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, November 13–14. WCI’s board of directors and members met… Read More
“Are all christenings like this?” First-timers were asking themselves that question at American Commercial Barge Line’s November 12 christening of the mv. ACBL Mariner, an 11,000 hp. towboat built at… Read More
Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) held a naming ceremony and christening October 25 at Pier 21 in Galveston, Texas, for the company’s newest trailing suction hopper dredge, the… Read More
For Austin Golding, president and CEO of Vicksburg, Miss.-based Golding Barge Line (GBL), the October 28 christening of the mv. Whit Golding was a special moment, not just in the… Read More
Maritime industry and waterway stakeholders will gather in San Antonio, Texas, November 13–15 for the 21st annual Waterways Symposium and meeting of the board of directors of Waterways Council Inc. Read More
The board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has appointed Beth Ann Branch as the new president and CEO of the port and the CEO of… Read More
