The poor condition of the swing span on the Barataria Bridge, including a lack of protective fendering, a faulty limit switch and a lack of red navigation lights,… Read More
Accidents
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train traveling south near Montrose, Iowa, collided with a barge just before midnight November 13, derailing multiple train cars and sending two cars into the Mississippi… Read More
The Coast Guard closed the Ohio River near Belleview, Ky., for several hours November 9 because of a fire aboard the towing vessel Capt. Kirby Dupuis. The towing… Read More
Severe, unforecasted winds caused a containership to break away from a pier and damaged equipment at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal in New Orleans on August 2, 2020, according… Read More
A major barge line could be seeing the final act of a notorious collision that resulted in a major oil spill on the Mississippi River—13 years after it happened. Read More
The failure of a bridge crew to realize that their vessel was dragging its anchor led to a collision on the Lower Mississippi River that caused $16.9 million… Read More
Insufficient radio communication and a failure to properly communicate tow size via AIS systems led to a fatal collision that sank a towing vessel with four crewmembers aboard, three… Read More
Shortly after 9 p.m. August 4, Coast Guard Sector New Orleans announced that Coast Guard watchstanders, St. Mary Parish law enforcement officials and crew members from multiple good Samaritan vessels… Read More
On July 8, a federal district judge in Houston exonerated Kirby Inland Marine from any liability or fault in a May 2019 collision in the Houston Ship… Read More
Donjon-SMIT, the salvage contractor charged with raising the wrecked lift boat Seacor Power and transporting it ashore, successfully raised the bow section of the vessel July 10 and moved… Read More
