Washington, D.C.—With only hours to spare, the Senate passed a stopgap measure to avoid a government shutdown and keep federal agencies up and running through December 3. Approved… 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.
Jim Fletcher, a longtime leader in the maritime industry and founder of Baton Rouge, La.-based Team Services LLC, retired from his full-time role with the company at the end… Read More
This year’s Pushing Hope Tournament raised more than $140,000 for cancer research. The event, held August 19-21 in Kirkwood, Mo., dates back to the early 1980s, when Consolidated… Read More
Due to the rapid drop of water levels in the Mississippi River and shoaling at Mile 9.9 in the downstream approach to Norrell Lock (No.1), the navigation channel in… Read More
A federal judge in Mississippi ruled September 13 in two separate cases that his court did not have the authority to order the Corps of Engineers to conduct an… Read More
The Central Ohio River Business Association (CORBA) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. The association held a celebration on the Purple People Bridge, a pedestrian-only bridge connecting Cincinnati and northern… Read More
As the soybean and corn harvests approach full swing, the resiliency of the inland waterway system is being tested by the damage of hurricanes Ida and Nicholas. Ken… Read More
More than 150 maritime industry leaders and organizations signed an industry-led call for world leaders to commit to decarbonizing international shipping by 2050, support industrial-scale zero-emission shipping projects… Read More
Washington, D.C.—Congressional Democratic leaders pivoted from corralling their own members into supporting two infrastructure packages worth trillions of dollars to playing a game of political chicken with Republicans over keeping the… 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
