The importance of the inland waterway system now and into the future was the focus of the annual Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals Inc. (IRPT) conference October 18-21. 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.
The Coast Guard Office of Investigations and Analysis has released an alert regarding risk of steering loss from defective steering rams on towing vessels. Improperly machined threads can… Read More
Calling it “Barging 101,” Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs) offered the first of a series of webinars October 20 to educate membership on the basics of the towboat industry. Read More
The New Orleans Propeller Club will honor Rear Adm. Joel Whitehead, retired former commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, as the 2021 Maritime Person of the Year. Whitehead… Read More
Capt. Lowell Maymon Brooks, 86, of English, Ind., died October 10 at his home with family. Brooks began his career in 1959 as a deckhand on the old Philip… Read More
Capt. Robert Earl “Bobby” Powell, 95, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died August 6 of heart failure. He had a long and distinguished river career, starting with working on his… Read More
Even though Hurricane Ida caused more damage than Hurricane Katrina on the inland waterways, what’s holding back river commerce right now isn’t the lingering effects of that damage, but… Read More
A Mississippi Lock on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway has been renamed in honor of the late Sen. Thad Cochran. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Authority and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
President Joe Biden has nominated Rear Adm. Ann Phillips to be the next administrator of the U.S. Maritime Administration. Phillips served 31 years in the U.S. Navy and currently serves… Read More
The Tennessee River Valley Association/Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council’s annual conference returned to an in-person meeting format October 11-12 at the Embassy Suites Hotel at Cool Springs in Franklin, Tenn. Read More
