After resisting two key safety recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board for years, the U.S. Coast Guard has committed to adopting them in the wake of the investigation into… Read More
Accidents
Shortly after 4 a.m. on March 15, 2019, the mv. Dixie Vandal, traveling inbound on the Houston Ship Channel with a partially loaded fuel barge, struck the mv. Trinity and… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its marine accident brief February 27 detailing its investigation into a February 27, 2019, allision involving the mv. Chad Pregracke, part of Marquette… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its Marine Accident Brief (MAB) March 16 detailing a collision that occurred in March 2019 involving the mv. St. Rita and a group… Read More
The Coast Guard is investigating after 14 barges broke loose from a towing vessel and hit a house along the Tennessee River near Savannah, Tenn., causing significant damage. The empty… Read More
The Lower Mississippi River was closed briefly March 15 following an allision between the mv. Cooperative Spirit and the Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge near Luling, La. The incident occurred at… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a Marine Accident Brief February 26 detailing the agency’s investigation into the March 10, 2019, allision of the mv. Rivers Wilson and the… Read More
The lack of an effective maintenance program that might have detected a clutch system operating at only 40 percent of efficiency was responsible for the February 13, 2019, collision between… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that the mv. City of Cleveland caught fire at about 4:15 p.m. February 26 near Mile 349 on the Lower Mississippi River, south of… Read More
“Having a Towing Safety Management System is no good unless you follow it.” Those words, or variants of them, have probably been spoken at every single meeting on Subchapter M… Read More
