Following criticism from the Louisiana governor’s office, the New Orleans Engineer District has suspended its permit for the proposed $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD), a project that was the… Read More
Author: Richard Eberhardt
When I got my first job on a tugboat, I didn’t consider it a career path. A well-connected acquaintance made a call and got me a job on a… Read More
Delgado Community College has upgraded its Full Mission Navigation suite and developed Louisiana’s only Coast Guard-approved, computer-based advanced firefighting program, said Rick Schwab, senior director of the Maritime and Industrial… Read More
Agile Cold Storage began construction in June of a $45.9 million cold storage facility in Pearl River, La., to service the chicken and beef protein industry. Located near the Louisiana-Mississippi… Read More
Commodore Richard B. McConnell Jr. was awarded the Coast Guard Auxiliary Meritorious Service Award by Rear Adm. David Barata, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, at the… Read More
An estimated 12,000 people participated in the first Fête-Dieu du Mississippi, a two-day blessing of the Lower Mississippi River fleet held between Baton Rouge, La., and New Orleans August 14… Read More
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on the Fête-Dieu du Mississippi, a two-day blessing-of-the-fleet event for vessels operating on the Lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge,… Read More
New Orleans-based Lower River Ship Service LLC and three members of the Currault family, along with a dispatcher for Port Ship Service, have been granted a salvage award of almost… Read More
Four members of the volunteer Coast Guard Auxiliary were recognized by the Coast Guard commandant for positioning and operating a communications trailer at Station Venice when Rescue 21’s Remote… Read More
Erston Reisch Jr. passed away on January 7 after a short illness. He was 83 years old. After serving in the Coast Guard as an engineman, Reisch attended… Read More
