Washington, D.C.—A House hearing on using the next Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) to promote infrastructure resiliency exposed major differences on the popular legislation that traditionally encourages bipartisanship. 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.
A crowd of more than 30 people squeezed into the Lake Barkley Resource Manager’s Office November 14 to hear about upcoming plans affecting river navigability in the coming months… Read More
Missouri Dry Dock & Repair Company Inc. of Cape Girardeau, Mo., has sold its floating assets to McNational Inc. of South Point, Ohio, as part of a private deal. Read More
The Waterways Journal has covered news involving dredging and marine construction since it first hit print in 1887, but soon that coverage will expand greatly. As… Read More
A donation from the Port of Paducah (Ky.) Propeller Club means new U.S. Navy Sea Cadets have the dress uniforms needed to pass their annual inspection. The… Read More
The Mike Hooks dredge E. Stroud has finished dredging operations on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway following historic late-winter flooding that left immense shoaling along the river. The February flooding… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) reported net income of $8.8 million for the third quarter, on revenue of $169.8 million. Both numbers are down from the… Read More
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, signed a Chief of Engineers Report for the proposed Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Brazos River Floodgates… Read More
At its November 6 meeting in Pittsburgh, the National Waterways Foundation (NWF) elected a slate of trustees and officers. The NWF is a center for research… Read More
In 1969, Barnhart Crane & Rigging Company was founded by Dick and Nancy Barnhart in Memphis, Tenn. It operated as a small family-owned company in the early years. “For years,… Read More
