The St. Paul Engineer District awarded a $5.5 million contract to Dubuque Barge & Fleeting Service Company, doing business as Newt Marine Service, September 20 to begin constructing Stage… Read More
Environment
With its recent expansion to providing renewable diesel fuel at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, PTL Marine has taken another step toward eventually making it… Read More
A pilot project on flooding and climate resilience in the Upper Mississippi River basin was recently announced by the National Oceanic and Aeronautic Administration and its partners, including the… Read More
The Blue Sky Maritime Coalition (BSMC) released a report June 23 that recommends methodologies for calculating Scope 1 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from marine vessels. “Consistent calculations and… Read More
Note: This is the third of three articles on the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s plans for freshwater diversion channels in southern Louisiana. Previous articles appeared in the… Read More
The National Weather Service issued an updated flood outlook for the Mississippi River basin and its sub-basins March 10 that showed little change from its previous flood outlook estimate. The… Read More
A strong cold front stretching from the Gulf of Mexico up to Tennessee passed through southeast Louisiana in the evening hours March 22. The same storm had already generated tornadoes… Read More
The Panama Canal will begin classifying and charging vessels according to their emission levels. The canal authority’s regular newsletter, Canal Connection, announced that “on the heels of COP26 [the… Read More
The Corps of Engineers announced on November 12 that hydrologic conditions would likely not support a test flow from Fort Peck Dam to support the pallid sturgeon. Col. Geoff… Read More
Barge transportation is already the cleanest and greenest mode of transportation compared to other modes, for those who can take advantage of it. But the industry, like many… Read More
