(Updated February 7 to include more quotes from Mark Knoy) American Commercial Lines Inc. (parent company to ACBL and ACBL Transportation Services) announced February 4 that it has entered… 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.
Registration is now open for WEDA’s Dredging Summit & Expo ’20.The conference will take place at the new Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Houston, Texas from June 9 to 12. Read More
Each year the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) presents Environmental Excellence Awards to outstanding projects at its annual WEDA Environmental Summit and Exposition. In 2020 the awards… Read More
Women of WEDA (Western Dredging Association) represents a quickly growing membership group of WEDA all over the Western hemisphere. This group is designed to give all WEDA members an opportunity… Read More
Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) held a hearing titled,… Read More
The Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) released Pipeline Incident Prevention (PIP), a recommended best practices guide for safe dredging near underwater gas and hazardous… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced additional work that it will accomplish with funding provided in Public Law 116-20, the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Act, 2019, signed into… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Cottrell Contracting began dredging the Norfolk Harbor Inner Channel and channel to Newport News in late December. The Norfolk… Read More
A fire at a popular marina on the Tennessee River’s Lake Guntersville near Scottsboro, Ala., has left eight people dead and destroyed 35 boats. The call came into… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating after a towing vessel with 15 barges of coal hit an Ohio River bridge in northern Kentucky, west of Cincinnati. No damage… Read More
