A towing vessel captain’s extreme fatigue, made worse by a COVID-19 infection, was the probable cause of an allision between his vessel and a Coast Guard dock at Cape Disappointment… Read More
Accidents
A mate aboard the William E. Strait did not realize how close two unlit moored barges at a refinery dock were to the towboat’s aft during fleeting operations in dense… Read More
The immediate cause of the incident in Baltimore, Md., on March 26, 2024, in which the container ship Dali struck a support pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge,… Read More
The pilot of the towboat mv. City of Louisville left the helm unattended, leading to a 2023 grounding that caused an estimated $2 million in damage, the National Transportation… Read More
The Coast Guard is investigating after a report of a capsized caustic soda barge May 26 in the St. Louis harbor. No one was injured. The Coast… Read More
Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report around 9:20 p.m. April 27 of a collision between the mv. Ginny Stone, a 200-foot by 50-foot towboat owned by American River… Read More
A pilot did not effectively compensate for outdraft current, causing a barge tow to strike a vane dike last year while navigating out of the McAlpine Locks in Louisville, Ky. Read More
Shortly after midnight on April 25, 2023, the mv. Ovide J was pushing a pair of loaded crude oil barges to Chalmette Refinery’s dock, located near Mile 89 on… Read More
A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report dated January 14 determined the probable cause of a July 4, 2023, allision between the mv. Kitty’s lead barge and Algiers Lock,… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released details of its investigation into the September 12, 2023, allision between the mv. John 3:16 and an industrial cargo pier on the… Read More
