The New York City Council is considering a bill to provide steep fines for barges carrying LED billboard ads. Council members believe the ads are illegal under current zoning laws. 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.
The American Equity Underwriters Inc. (AEU), the leading provider of workers’ compensation for waterfront employers, announced that an AEU Regional Forum will be held June 18 at the Embassy Suites… Read More
The Louisville Engineer District announced April 11 that Corps natural resources managers and other personnel will be conducting prescribed burns at McAlpine Locks and Dam for the remainder of April. Read More
As the important House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee’s Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee held hearings, leaders of ports and the inland navigation industry testified to the crucial importance of fully… Read More
Nick Nichols, 83, of O’Fallon, Ill., operations manager for the St. Louis Port Authority, died of a heart attack April 9. Nichols retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Read More
Marine archaeologists working in a flooded ancient port in Egypt have found the first known surviving example of a type of Nile River barge described by a Greek historian 2,469… Read More
Historic levels of high water and flooding, and the resulting silt, have closed or restricted commercial traffic on large parts of the nation’s river systems. Along the Gulf of Mexico,… Read More
Top photo: Attorney John Karpousis gestures as he makes a point. (Photo by David Murray) The 37th annual seminar of the Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association (GNOBFA) was held at… Read More
President Trump signed an executive order targeting efforts by states to use a key section of the Clean Water Act to delay major energy infrastructure development, and Sen. John Barrasso… Read More
Following European Commission approval, Kongsberg Maritime parent company Kongsberg Gruppen announced April 1 that it has completed the acquisition of Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine (RRCM). Officially part of Kongsberg Maritime, RRCM… Read More
