Commercial fishing along the Upper Mississippi River has been sustainable over the past 60 years and hasn’t negatively influenced fish populations or recreational fisheries, according to a University of… Read More
Author: Waterways Journal
The Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) elected its officers and visited the nation’s leading export region for soybeans during the organization’s annual meeting on December 10-11 in New Orleans, La. Read More
On November 14, Arkansas and Oklahoma state agencies announced the completion of a Memorandum of Agreement committing the states to future collaboration in addressing water quality concerns related to… Read More
Earl Walton, 94, of Huntington, W.Va., passed away December 8. He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran, and for many years operated Walton Marine, servicing towboat radars,… Read More
As 2018 draws to a close, the barge industry and its partners and advocates have good reason to be proud of their accomplishments, many of which piled up in… Read More
Master Marine, Bayou la Batre, Ala., announced it has delivered the 67- by 28-foot mv. Rick Pemberton to Waterfront Services. The boat is powered by a pair of… Read More
A pair of smaller Louisiana waterways—the Houma Navigation Canal and bayous Chene, Boeuf and Black—will receive additional dredging funds from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ fiscal year… Read More
The Corps of Engineers’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Work Plan includes an additional $59 million in funding for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP). This funding… Read More
Tim Thomas Tim Thomas, vice president of Eagle Marine Industries, St. Louis, died November 27. A resident of Collinsville, Ill., he was 64. After receiving his MBA from… Read More
The Port of Savannah moved more container cargo in October than any other month in its history, with 413,800 twenty-foot-equivalent container units (TEU) crossing its docks, the port announced… Read More
