As Mississippi River levels continue to sink, barge traffic from the Arkansas River is being restricted. After dipping briefly on October 18 to -12 feet at Memphis, breaking more low-water… 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.
Although the Mississippi River remains extremely low, flows below Baton Rouge, along with mitigation efforts by the New Orleans Engineer District, continue to hold at bay salt water intruding up… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District awarded a $1.5 million contract to OCCI Inc., doing business as Missouri Fabricators, of Fulton, Mo., to fabricate four replacement tainter valves at Upper Mississippi… Read More
Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call about 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 14, from National Maintenance & Repair of Louisiana regarding a missing worker who had reportedly last… Read More
Washington, D.C.–A still-paralyzed House entered its third week without a speaker as Republicans twice put forward nominees who did not end up with the gavel. After House Majority Leader Steve… Read More
Tows are waiting an average of 13 to 15 hours to begin locking through Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River, more than two years after remnants of a hurricane sank… Read More
Michael Breslin is the director of safety and sustainability at The American Waterways Operators (AWO). Before joining AWO in 2021, he spent nearly 13 years at Turn Services, a New… Read More
The 57th annual Tennessee River Valley Association and Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council meeting October 9-10 in Franklin, Tenn., included an update on projects along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers as well… Read More
A group of offshore wind developers is sounding the alarm over what they say is underinvestment in ports that service wind farms. They say they can’t meet the Biden administration’s… Read More
Germany-based international logistics firm Rhenus presented the Ernst Kramer, a 50-year-old vessel the group converted to be fully remote-controlled, at the German National Maritime Conference on September 14-15. Rhenus launched… Read More
