In just a couple months, COVID-19 has made abundantly clear the interconnectedness of the global economy, the fragility of the supply chains that drive it, and the resiliency of the… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
In 2020, New Orleans-based Turn Services, one of the largest independent barge fleeting and shifting companies in the United States, is marking 30 years operating on the Lower Mississippi River… Read More
Just four years ago, the site of the old Degussa Evonik carbon black plant in Rockport, Texas, was sitting idle, inactive for close to eight years. The 250-acre site, which… Read More
With the New Orleans Engineer District continuing to open bays at the Bonnet Carré Spillway, the Carrollton Gage in New Orleans was holding steady at just over 16.5 feet April… Read More
Canal Barge Company (CBC), a New Orleans-based marine transportation company founded in 1933, is adding three new towboats to its fleet that already numbers 48 vessels strong, including its subsidiary… Read More
The Port of Corpus Christi has announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on April 8 awarded a $97.9 million contract to Texas-based Callan Marine Ltd. for completion of… Read More
The Alabama State Port Authority board of directors has named John Driscoll, maritime director for the Port of Oakland, as the successor to Jimmy Lyons, longtime director and chief executive… Read More
Work to replace armoring of the four gate bays of the sector gates at Calcasieu Lock on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) near Lake Charles, La., is nearing completion. The… Read More
With available hospital space nationwide dwindling with the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the federal effort to… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its Marine Accident Brief (MAB) March 16 detailing a collision that occurred in March 2019 involving the mv. St. Rita and a group… Read More
