Last week saw flurries of activity in Washington, D.C., as organizations involved in American shipbuilding met with officials and lobbied in the wake of President Donald Trump’s announcement in his… Read More
Author: Waterways Journal
Late last month, a group of senior leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense visited a pair of Gulf Coast shipyards, with stops at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.,… Read More
Vicksburg Shipyard LLC, a subsidiary of Terral RiverService, has acquired Big River Shipbuilding, located on the Yazoo River Diversion Canal in Vicksburg, Miss. With this acquisition, Vicksburg Shipyard will now… Read More
Rocket Lab USA of Long Beach, Calif., has announced the acquisition of a barge from New Orleans-based Canal Barge Company that will serve as an ocean landing platform for rockets… Read More
Royce C. Wilken Royce C. Wilken, who spent 38 years at Archer Daniels Midland, served as the president of American River Transportation Company, and chaired both the American Waterways Operators… Read More
OpenTug, a marine logistics platform dedicated to optimizing freight efficiency on inland and coastal waterways, recently announced a shift in strategic focus from its original marketplace model to the continued… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District awarded a seepage remediation contract worth more than $7 million on February 18 to APC Construction LLC of Harvey, La. The contract was awarded as… Read More
This issue of The Waterways Journal carries the obituaries of four maritime industry veterans who collectively worked on, by and for our waterways for well over a century. The amazing… Read More
Marquette Transportation Company will expand its Paducah, Ky., facility, with more than $5 million in investment, creating up to 55 jobs, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s office announced February 27. “One… Read More
Laborde Products recently announced the repowering of three vessels with new engines: the mv. Lydia Ann for Lydia Ann Channel Fleet, the mv. Ed for American Commercial Barge Line and… Read More
