A webinar presented by the American Waterways Operators titled “COVID-19: Ask An Industrial Hygienist,” drew great interest from AWO members who attended, with half the session taken up with… 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.
Across the maritime industry, every company, agency, port or terminal has been impacted by efforts to “flatten the curve” of infections of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel… Read More
The owner of an industrial park along the Ohio River plans to build a barge loading and unloading facility. 4K Industrial Park LLC applied March 31 for a… Read More
American River Transportation Company (ARTCO) plans to establish a barge fleeting area for empty and loaded hopper/tank barges to handle increased barge traffic at the confluence of the Mississippi… Read More
Capt. Joe Edward Boyd Jr. Capt. Joe Edward Boyd Jr., 65, of Wayne, W.Va., died January 14 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va. Boyd… Read More
RiverWorks Discovery has announced two new staff members: Andra Olney-Larson • Andra Olney-Larson has accepted the position of RiverWorks Discovery coordinator. In 2018, Olney-Larson and her husband… Read More
The Corps of Engineers’ Missouri River Water Management Division has released four videos of presentations that would normally be given at public meetings held throughout the Missouri River Basin. Read More
Walter James “Jimmy” Amoss Jr., former CEO of Lykes Bros. Steamship Company and founder of Seapoint, a container transfer concept envisioned for near the mouth of the Mississippi… Read More
On April 12, Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States agreed to the largest-ever oil production cuts in a deal brokered by President Donald Trump. The deal was… Read More
A commercial fisherman harvested close to 60,000 pounds of Asian carp from one bay in 48 hours as part of a fishing method being tested in Kentucky for the… Read More
