A recent project by Damen Marine Components has been a big hit with its customer, Coastal Transportation Inc. The project involved the retrofit of a new rudder that delivered… Read More
Author: Waterways Journal
By Capt. Scott Stoermer and Capt. Kristi Luttrell The United States is a nation shaped by its inland and coastal geography. Deepwater access to Atlantic and Pacific… Read More
James Buchanan Eads is remembered today mostly for his magnificent Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River in St. Louis. The world’s first triple steel-arch bridge, it was completed… Read More
A lock operator at Kentucky Lock received the U.S. Army Meritorious Civilian Service Medal from the commanding general of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Engineer Division. Maj. Read More
Hershel “Woody” Williams, center, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harry Truman on October 5, 1945, was the featured speaker/honoree at the October 9 annual… Read More
United States Steel Corporation announced October 1 a joint venture partnership agreement under which it has taken the first step towards acquiring Big River Steel through the purchase of… Read More
Michael O’Daniels Michael O’Daniels, 74, died September 27 in his home in New Orleans. Born on a naval base in New Hampshire, he was raised in Council Bluffs,… Read More
Kongsberg Digital, a global provider of maritime simulation technology, and SeaCross, the company behind the SeaCross navigation system for safe and effective high-speed craft operation, announced a new partnership… Read More
While the effort to deepen the channel of the Lower Mississippi River gathers momentum, other channel-deepening efforts continue as well. Both Arkansas River and Red River interests are… Read More
Parker Towing Company is going pink in October to support breast cancer prevention awareness and research during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The traditionally blue exhaust stacks of the… Read More
