ERL/Law Valve of Texas hosted its annual open house October 24 at the company’s headquarters in Channelview, Texas. The popular event each year welcomes customers, vendors and industry representatives… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
On October 23, Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Shaffer and the Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team New Orleans were working on the west bank of the Lower Mississippi River… Read More
The New Orleans chapter of Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) hosted the second annual Leaders In Maritime panel and luncheon September 23, featuring Parker Harrison, WISTA… Read More
Oftentimes over the lifespan of a towboat, a new company will come along and buy, refurbish and rename the boat. Anyone who lives and breathes the maritime industry knows… Read More
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, along with other state and local officials and executives from Bethesda, Md.-based Enviva, gathered in rural Livingston, Ala., the county seat of Sumter County, October… Read More
Future possibilities for the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway (BWT) were on full display during the September meeting of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association’s board of directors. The board gathered September… Read More
The river cruise business is booming on the nation’s inland waterways, with the American Queen Steamboat Company putting a new vessel into service next year, the refurbishment of… Read More
Tucked away just north of where the Yazoo River meets the Mississippi River, at the southernmost point of the fertile Mississippi Delta, lies the Port of Vicksburg, a well-developed… Read More
Around 11:30 a.m. on September 26, the mv. St. Peter, a 2,000 hp. towboat that’s part of Marquette Transportation Company’s Gulf-Inland Fleet, was northbound on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, locking through… Read More
Jamie Whitten Lock at Mile 412 on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom) reopened to commercial navigation around 11:30 p.m. September 25 after an incident 2-1/2 weeks earlier led to… Read More
