After an extensive consultative process with the inland waterways industry, the Coast Guard is proposing to amend the requirements regulating personnel permitted to serve as a person in charge… 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.
Washington, D.C.—The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) marked a “big win” when port equipment was dropped from the list of products targeted for tariffs in the trade war… Read More
A dredging emergency in the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers led river industry representatives to appeal to members of Congress to urge the Corps to better distribute already-allocated emergency… Read More
Papers filed in federal court by lawyers for Bruce Oakley Inc. and Johnston’s Port 33 shed more light on the chain of events that led to two barges traveling… Read More
Mayors from cities and towns along the Mississippi River joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a press conference in St. Louis, Mo., to unveil a newly assembled disaster… Read More
The Mississippi River Commission (MRC) will hold four public meetings in August aboard the Corps of Engineers’ flagship towboat, the mv. Mississippi. Each meeting will include a summary… Read More
Col. William Hannan Jr. Command of the Kansas City Engineer District was transferred July 19 from Col. Douglas Guttormsen to Col. William Hannan Jr. in a formal ceremony… Read More
Capt. Elliot Crochet, 69, of Jasper, Texas, died in Biloxi, Miss., on August 2, 2019. “Captain Elliot” was born in Montegut, La., in 1950; as the eldest of… Read More
Two women from Hannibal, Mo., died August 3 near the Mark Twain Bridge when the motorized pontoon they were on broke loose and was carried by strong current into… Read More
The long-awaited fall on the Lower Mississippi River is underway in Louisiana, with the New Orleans Engineer District officially deactivating its Phase II flood fight July 29 and… Read More
