Washington, D.C.—Citing increasing gas prices and their impact on Americans, President Joe Biden used his first State of the Union address to announce the U.S. will release 30 million barrels… Read More
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Recent inland waterways industry news, covering the Mississippi River, Ohio River, Missouri River, Tennessee River, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and more. Articles on economic, environmental and logistic advantages of barge shipping, plus other stories pertaining to locks and dams and other waterway infrastructure.
Officials with the Vicksburg Engineer District’s Thatcher Lock & Dam, the northernmost navigation structure on the Ouachita River in Arkansas, first noticed something wrong at the structure in late October… Read More
Talos Energy Inc. announced February 15 that it had reached an agreement with a large Louisiana landowner to lease about 26,000 acres along the Mississippi River industrial corridor for future carbon capture… Read More
Nearly 40 members of the maritime community in the Cincinnati, Ohio, region met February 17 for the Central Ohio River Business Association (CORBA) winter meeting at BB Riverboats in Newport,… Read More
Washington, D.C.—A record investment of nearly $450 million in available grant funding through the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) has been announced by the Maritime Administration (MarAd). Made possible by… Read More
The Little Rock Engineer District reports that Norrell Lock (Lock 1) and Joe Hardin Lock (Lock 3) on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) are scheduled for closures during… Read More
Kenny Devall has been named president and CEO of The Southern Devall Group (TSDG), the combined businesses of Southern Towing and Devall Towing. In addition, the company announced that Chris… Read More
ABB has announced the rebranding of its turbocharging division under the name “Accelleron,” which is a compound of words like “access,” “accelerate” and “excel.” The brand builds off of ABB’s… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) reported a strong fourth quarter of 2021, but its full-year financial results fell short of the previous year’s. In the February 16 announcement,… Read More
Stanley Machovec, 88, of St. Paul, Minn., former operator of Machovec’s Food Market in St. Paul, died January 27. The market, which was founded by his grandfather in 1893, provided… Read More
