Flood risk for most of the Mississippi River basin should be at or near normal averages for the next 90 days, according to officials of the National Water Center,… Read More
News
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.
A PTL Marine employee was missing at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers after his grocery delivery boat capsized March 3. Tyler Morgan, 23, of LaCenter,… Read More
The Cheatham Lock and Dam on the Cumberland closed for four days due to high water while two ferries, one crossing the Ohio River and one the Lower Mississippi,… Read More
A new organization that began as a distributed email list with occasional meetings is bringing together professionals who work in inland waterway compliance for mutual support and networking. The… Read More
Cooper Marine & Timberlands (CMT) has announced the expansion of its stevedoring operation to the Port of Corpus Christi. Initial efforts there began last fall, and CMT’s presence there… Read More
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… Read More
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… 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… 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… 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… Read More
