The Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans, La., was closed for several hours February 27 after it was struck by the crude oil tanker ship Clio, which was northbound. Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
Plimsoll Marine, which operates 19 towboats that offer fleeting and shifting services for Cooper Consolidated between Baton Rouge, La., and Head of Passes on the Lower Mississippi River, recently took… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District will begin opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway at 10 a.m. on February 27, to divert a portion of the Lower Mississippi River’s flow into Lake… Read More
Cenac Marine Services recently donated two golf carts to Nicholls State University and the school’s Bridge to Independence Program. The donation was announced before Kirby Corporation announced it was acquiring… Read More
RiverWorks Discovery’s Who Works the Rivers (WWR) maritime career discovery day returned to New Orleans February 20, with close to 175 high school students from across the region gathering at… Read More
(Click on image for full photo) To say Capt. Kenny Billiot Jr. is carrying on a family legacy at Wood Towing would be an understatement. When asked how many of… Read More
Some people spend years or even decades in search of a calling or career that fulfills them. Others, though, find it at an early age, never look back and go… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a pair of marine accident briefs detailing incidents aboard two towboats, the mv. Ricky Robinson and the mv. J.W. Herron. The incidents… Read More
The tows of two towboats, one heading northbound and the other southbound on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans, La., collided February 13 and led to a breakaway, a… Read More
Kelly Phillips, the now-famous captain of the houseboat “Shameless” who began his Mississippi River odyssey in March 2017 in Prairie du Chien, Wis., after being given just three months to… Read More
