Marty Ozinga III Martin “Marty” Ozinga III, chairman of the board of Ozinga, died April 26. He was 71. Ozinga, a fourth-generation family business best known for its red… Read More
Author: Waterways Journal
Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville will receive more than 30 barges by June 30 destined for a cement plant undergoing a $600 million expansion. Lehigh Cement Inc. is shipping large… Read More
Custom Dredge Works (CDW), based in Topeka, Kan., has announced the launch of a new 14-inch electric chain-ladder cutter suction dredge to mine sand and gravel for Winter Bros. Read More
No one knows better than towboat operators that river safety is a shared responsibility. Our industry has made tremendous strides in increasing safety in a difficult occupation that can… Read More
After an emergency closure that lasted about a week, Coffeeville Lock, located at Mile 116.6 on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway (BWT) is back open to navigation. The Mobile Engineer… Read More
During the March 25 meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, board members elected William Langenstein as chairman. Other officers elected during the meeting… Read More
(Note: an earlier version of this story had the incorrect species that was removed from the Endangered Species List earlier this year. It is corrected in the version below.)… Read More
Lockport, La.-based Bollinger Shipyards announced April 19 the acquisition of the shipyard division assets and long-term contracts of Gulf Island Fabrication Inc. The acquisition includes a 437-acre waterfront facility… Read More
W.A. “Peanut” Hollinger, a much-storied entrepreneur from Paducah, Ky., and Eustis, Fla., who had been involved in almost every aspect of the river business at one time or… Read More
By Lance M. Sannino, James Kearns and Aimee Andres The “Report Card” recently issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers has added to the renewed attention directed… Read More
