Just before midnight on January 12, 2021, the mv. Robert Cenac pushed its single empty barge into the CSX railway swing bridge that crosses the Rigolets near Slidell, La. Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
The board of directors of the Alabama Port Authority has approved the purchase of 272 acres near Montgomery, Ala., for more than $2 million. The port plans to build… Read More
Last summer, people living along the Mississippi River from its confluence with the Ohio all the way down to Baton Rouge, La., might have seen a strange sight: a… Read More
When Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards unveiled his budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 on January 24, the plan included a series of eye-popping price tags for major infrastructure… Read More
On January 4, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the state has begun construction on the Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project, part of the Pontchartrain Basin restoration plan being… Read More
Effective January 15, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has allowed its COVID-era guidelines for cruise lines—the agency’s “Framework for Conditional Sailing Order” (CSO)—to expire. The… Read More
New Orleans Engineer District Commander Col. Stephen Murphy; Tony Alford, president of the Terrebonne Levee & Conservation District board of commissioners; and Chip Kline, chairman of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection… Read More
Coffeeville Lock, located at Mile 116.6 on the Tombigbee River, reopened to navigation at 6 p.m. Friday, January 14, after a sunken 41-foot recreational vessel was removed from the… Read More
In 2021, the Port of Corpus Christi saw a whopping 81.2 percent increase in shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) compared to 2020. That steep gain in LNG,… Read More
American Cruise Lines (ACL), which already operates a fleet of 15 passenger cruise vessels along 35 domestic itineraries in 31 states, has announced plans to build 12 identical ships… Read More
