The Rock Island Engineer District has received $1.5 million from the states of Illinois and Michigan to keep the Brandon Road Interbasin Project moving forward with engineering and design. Read More
Author: Shelley Byrne
The International Propeller Club’s Port of Paducah (Ky.) has taken the lead in seeking a resolution from the Kentucky legislature to support the Jones Act. House Concurrent Resolution… Read More
Specialty marine contractor J.F. Brennan Company Inc. is growing with the recent acquisition of the dredging and dewatering division of Infrastructure Alternatives Inc. (IAI). The purchase brings… Read More
With many people focused in past months on the historic low-water conditions along the Lower Mississippi River, the west Kentucky chapter of Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs) held an… Read More
A public port project in Cairo, Ill., is facing delays and an uncertain future after contracts have expired, and no funding for it has been received in more than… Read More
Still without a project partnership agreement, funding for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project is in danger of lapsing. The project, on the Des Plaines River near Joliet, Ill.,… Read More
Angie Yu, president of Two Rivers Fisheries, shows some of the prototype products being developed from carp being processed at her facility in Wickliffe, Ky. They include salt carp… Read More
Dan Mecklenborg of Ingram Barge Company and Tim Parker of Parker Towing were honored with the Achievement Awards from The National Rivers Hall of Fame last month in Paducah,… Read More
Kentucky officials released the final version of the state’s updated long-range, multi-modal transportation plan January 10. The 132-page policy plan, which the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said was shaped… Read More
The scheduled 120-day closure of the Illinois Waterway later this year will start a month earlier than a similar closure in 2020 and is less extensive, while still critical… Read More
