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The city of Wheeling, W.Va., plans to build a commercial boat dock for sternwheel cruises along the Ohio River. The dock is to be built in the Wheeling Island main… Read More

Martin Marietta Materials Inc. plans to construct a barge loading/unloading area at its existing facility along the Ohio River near Petersburg, Ky. The proposed project would be located along the… Read More

Sean Duffy, executive director of the Big River Coalition, which advocates and promotes maritime commerce on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, has been named to Louisiana’s Committee of 100… Read More

As part of its response to the coronavirus crisis, The American Waterways Operators formally requested March 18 that the Coast Guard suspend in-person Subchapter M inspection activities for at least… Read More

As the “whole-of-government” response to the coronavirus evolves not just daily but hourly, the National Maritime Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., announced in a March 19 update—as this edition of The… Read More

A federal agency responsible for keeping infrastructure and cyber facilities secure has issued a list including maritime workers among those “essential critical infrastructure workers” during COVID-19 response. The agency is… Read More

By Jeanne Amy and Maggie Spell Jones Walker LLP In this unsettling time of the ever-evolving coronavirus pandemic and social distancing, unique challenges face the marine industry for crew members… Read More

The spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in China is not having an effect on Kentucky’s exports of Asian carp, but it is preventing Chinese investors from visiting a fisheries… Read More

The entire world is in total panic! People are getting sick, some even dying, of what feels like a foreign invasion. Oil prices are dangerously low (not a good thing… Read More