Author: Waterways Journal

The Coast Guard issued a Marine Safety Advisory (MSA) January 18 to ensure mariners, marine employers and sponsoring organizations are informed of recent changes to the Department of Transportation… Read More

Tim Studdert As of January 1, Tim Studdert assumed the duties and responsibilities of the president of Buffalo Marine Service Inc., a marine-transportation provider, in Houston, Texas. Read More

Kent Puchbauer, Semo Port board chairman, presents a plaque to Jerry Lorberg of Cape County, who is leaving the board’s Member at Large position after serving during 2016–2017. Lloyd… Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a fuel oil discharge earlier this month on the Mississippi River near Gramercy, La. On January 4 just before 8:30 a.m., Coast… Read More

The Corps is continuing to prepare the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System  for the upcoming runoff season, according to a January 9 conference call. Current Gavins Point Dam releases… Read More

The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority has announced that Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant will serve as the agency’s chairman in 2018. This is Bryant’s second term as chairman of the… Read More

The mv. Gate City sank in the Big Sandy River near Butler, W.Va., January 10. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard) The Coast Guard responded to a sunken… Read More

Eastern Shipbuilding announced that it delivered the dredge mv. Magdalen to Weeks Marine Inc. on December 22. The trailing suction hopper dredge was designed by Royal IHC. The… Read More

The topic of congressional earmarks is news again, and that’s a good thing. President Donald Trump has suggested bringing back the congressional budget process known as earmarks, in which… Read More