Royal IHC has reached agreements with several customers in Africa and Asia to supply IHC Beaver® cutter suction dredges (CSDs) and an IHC Easydredge® trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) with… 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.
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Shoreline & Waterway Management Section will be holding three informational public workshops to share information about dredging and other waterway management operations… Read More
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has announced its first call for abstracts for the annual Dredging Summit & Expo ’20. The conference will take place at the Marriott Marquis Hotel… Read More
Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL)is now offering a T-bar mini-penetrometer for in-field seabed strength profiling of box core samples. The T-bar penetrometer measures the resistance of… Read More
On October 3, Damen Shipyards Galati hosted a celebration marking the keel-laying of a Damen Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) 3500 for Hanson UK. On September… Read More
A tow of six barges pushed by the mv. Dale Artigue struck a yacht club on the Ohio River, tearing loose several pleasure boats—and the club’s floating restaurant, which… Read More
Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River reopened on the evening of September 27 after having been closed since September 8. The Corps of Engineers had originally predicted… Read More
Four months after a barge strike at a dam closed the upper reaches of the McClellan-Kerr River Navigation System to navigation, the system reopened on September 30. The… Read More
High water has delayed the reopening of Starved Rock and Marseilles locks on the Illinois Waterway. The temporary closures began September 20 and were expected to last until… Read More
Barge breakaways, hiring practices and maintenance and cure payments under maritime law were among the topics presented in detail at a September 27 maritime law seminar held in St. Read More
