Around midnight September 20, following torrential rain dropped in the Houston area by the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda, nine barges broke away from their moorings at San Jacinto… 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.
Washington, D.C.—Legislation backed by members of the waterways industry may be left hanging in the balance after President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats hit the kind of historic impasse… Read More
A couple of short weeks ago, the Rock Island Engineer District was struggling to perform dredging to clear riverbends and shoals from the huge deposits of silt left… Read More
The technology group Wärtsilä has supplied advanced technology simulators providing realistic hands-on training for a new training facility in Portugal, developed and run by the Port… Read More
The Western Area Dredging Association (WEDA) Eastern Chapter has released the schedule of events and education sessions for its upcoming meeting. The event will be held October 16 to 19… Read More
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is accepting proposals for specific projects in the Atchafalaya River Basin in anticipation of its Atchafalaya Basin Program Annual Plan for Fiscal… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District released a draft Environmental Assessment (EA), for its proposed dredged material management plan in Pool 5, near Kellogg, Minnesota. The draft… Read More
Douglas B. Mackie, Chief Executive Officer of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) from 1995 to 2011, passed away on September 11, 2019. Mackie also served in many leadership… Read More
Van Oord, in coordination with Shell, is testing the use of biofuel on its fleet. The biofuel reduces CO2 emissions by more than 40 percent compared with… Read More
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced a $160 million project to restore and nourish two barrier islands and one headland on the southern perimeter of the Terrebonne Basin in Louisiana. Read More
