A barge moored at Zito Fleet near Mile 105 on the Lower Mississippi River in Jefferson Parish, La., just downriver from the Huey P. Long Bridge, caught fire June 24,… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
New Orleans has a new captain of the port following a June 15 change of command ceremony held at the Port of New Orleans’ Julia Street Cruise Terminal during which… Read More
The Port of Mobile, located on Mobile Bay with the Gulf of Mexico to the south and the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers to the north, has for… Read More
Lyons Over the past 19 years, the Port of Mobile has invested about $1 billion into port-owned infrastructure and facilities. It currently ranks as the 10th largest port in… Read More
Ivy Marine, based in the Mobile, Ala., area, tackled a big job with a pair of smaller towboats earlier this month, when the company moved the U.S. Army Corps of… Read More
The state of Louisiana announced earlier this month a plan to replace the leaky-yet-venerable Belle Chasse Tunnel and Perez Bridge, which both span the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on Highway 23… Read More
The Port Commission of the Port of Corpus Christi (Texas) voted June 19 to authorize the port authority to issue a total of $217 million in revenue bonds, with close… Read More
Whether it’s credit card data, files stored in the cloud, power grids, cryptocurrencies, emails, key fobs, computer systems or communications, anything connected to the internet or that uses wireless technology… Read More
For decades, the dominant propulsion option on the inland waterways was a traditional propeller driven by mechanically connected drive engines. Over time, Z-drive towboats have claimed a portion of… Read More
Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, American Pharoah—and now, as of June 9, Justify. In the world of… Read More
