Corn Island Shipyard, Grandview, Ind., recently launched two 300-cubic-yard split-hull dump scows for Pacific Tugboat Services based in San Diego, Calif., a few months after it launched its latest dredge… Read More
Author: Heather Ervin
Three Rivers Boat & Barge, Ledbetter, Ky., announced that it is in the process of building a new 1,800-ton drydock for barge repair at its 38-acre shipyard located at… Read More
Clayton Harris III, executive director of the Illinois International Port District, pictured here with graduates of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s RENEW program, said the Port of Chicago’s newly… Read More
R&D Associates has seen a surge in damaged barges at its facility this year due to heavy ice floes and flooding on the Ohio River. A heavy layer of… Read More
AGRIServices of Brunswick (Mo.) will upgrade its facility at Mile 256 on theMissouri River to accommodate an increase in barge activity. —photo courtesy of AGRIServices of Brunswick LLC AGRIServices… Read More
After 30 years of construction and funding delays, the nearly $3 billion Olmsted Locks and Dam project on the Ohio River near Olmsted, Ill., is nearing completion four years ahead… Read More
Just prior to opening its new office in Paducah, Ky., Inland Rivers HR had the building blessed. Chaplains Kempton Baldridge and Don Reusch, both with the Seamen’s Church Institute, oversaw… Read More
The mv. Morgan, outbound at 92nd Street. (photo courtesy of Kindra Lake Towing) It’s not often that two people bond over a fascination with barges. It’s even rarer that they… Read More
Clayton Harris, executive director of the Illinois International Port District in Chicago, Ill., told The Waterways Journal that 2017 was a successful year for the port, which he hopes will… Read More
Capt. Stewart Jackson Stewart Jackson grew up on the Atchafalaya, Red and Mississippi rivers, where his father worked as a commercial fisherman before working as a towboat captain… Read More
