Cleanup efforts are almost complete at Jamie Whitten Lock at Mile 412 on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway following an early September incident that led to the release of crude oil into… 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.
Now that river levels are dropping, the heavy load of silt dropped by this spring’s flooding is causing groundings up and down the length of the Mississippi River. On September… Read More
Washington, D.C. – Members of the waterways industry welcomed a funding boost proposed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a major spending bill unanimously approved by the Senate… Read More
Mayors who are part of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI), along with representatives from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Maritime Administration… Read More
Western Rivers Boat Management, Paducah, Ky., recently unveiled a new fleeting area on the Lower Mississippi River, the company said in an announcement September 19. “We are excited to announce… Read More
Inland Marine Service (IMS) has entered into a new vessel management agreement with Tennessee Valley Towing (TVT), a Paducah, Ky.-based subsidiary of James Transportation, as announced September 19 by Dave… Read More
Cummins Inc., the world’s largest maker of diesel engines, announced in early September that it had completed its acquisition of fuel-cell maker The Hydrogenics Company. The deal’s value was estimated… Read More
Many have made the journey down the Mississippi River in boats, and some have written about it. LouAnne Harris took a different path: she began paddle-boarding the entire length of… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District is in the process of reassigning the Lock C site to the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Campbell, Ky. The Lock C site has historically been… Read More
On September 30, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Bloomington, Minn., Corps of Engineers Civil Works Director James Dalton will join the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association (UMRBA) in… Read More
