The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its marine accident brief June 13 on the fatal capsizing of the mv. Natalie Jean on the Lower Mississippi River near New… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
The U.S. Coast Guard received word around 1:30 p.m. June 16 that a downbound tanker struck the Sunshine Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, La.,… Read More
The 9th annual Glenn Otero Golf Tournament, which benefits Children’s Hospital of New Orleans, was held May 15 at Lakewood Golf Club. Turn Services, a New Orleans-based barge fleeting… Read More
In Morgan City, La., where the Atchafalaya River draws near to the Gulf of Mexico, sediment pushed down from both the Red River and the Mississippi River continues… Read More
With the Mississippi River stuck on high, mariners in the New Orleans area have been on high alert since November. The river has put a strain on engines, tow… Read More
Commerce is moving again on the entire length of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway thanks to the Mike Hooks dredge E. Stroud clearing a pilot channel below Aberdeen Lock and Dam… Read More
Visitors to the Pass A’Loutre Wildlife Management Area to the south and east of Head of Passes on the Lower Mississippi River will have to watch where they step… Read More
Over the past five years, the nation has seen a major advancement of major inland waterway infrastructure projects underway, namely lock construction projects at Olmsted, Lower Monongahela (Lower Mon),… Read More
The Inland Waterways Users Board gathered May 23 in New Orleans, La., for its 91st meeting since Congress established the board as part of the Water Resources Development Act… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced June 6 the decision to again postpone operation of the Morganza Spillway, a flood control structure located between Red River Landing and Baton… Read More
