Compared to road, rail and air, moving cargoes on the inland waterways is already the greenest mode of transportation. Still, operators are actively exploring ways to shrink their carbon… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
The Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA) will hold its 72nd annual meeting May 18–20 at the Grand Hotel Marriott in Point Clear, Ala. The yearly gathering of operators, managers… Read More
The recently reconstituted Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) held its 96th meeting April 20 in New Orleans, and learned, among other things, that completion of the Kentucky Lock Project… Read More
Coden, Ala.-based Master Boat Builders Inc. has delivered an electric-hybrid tugboat to Seabulk, part of the Seacor Holdings family of companies. Seabulk has named the new hybrid… Read More
The Coast Guard Foundation held its annual tribute to the Eighth Coast Guard District March 11 at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. During the event, the foundation… Read More
The Mississippi River Commission (MRC) concluded its annual high-water inspection trip aboard the mv. Mississippi on April 8 in Baton Rouge, La. It was the fourth stop along… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released its report into the March 16, 2021, allision between the tanker Bow Tribute and a fendering system protecting two intakes for… Read More
Inland and coastal ports and terminals are the convergence points for cargoes moving into and out of the United States, the on- and off-ramps for the nation’s inland waterway… Read More
Vicksburg, Miss., is one of the South’s most iconic Mississippi River towns. Ironically, though, much of Vicksburg was cut off from the Mississippi River in 1876, when the… Read More
It’s been a whirlwind decade for Paul Matthews. Matthews got his start in the maritime industry in 2012 at the Port of New Orleans, where he worked in… Read More
