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The Small Shipyard Grant Program, an annual Maritime Administration grant aimed at bolstering and modernizing smaller shipyards, is in limbo for now due to the partial government shutdown, which… Read More

On December 28, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that it had increased the random drug testing rate that marine employers are required to perform on inland and other vessel… Read More

For more than a decade now, Dr. Lois Wright Morton and Dr. Kenneth Olson have been working together to publish a series of articles on the impact of flooding… Read More

Capt. Gene Neal died November 24 at Merit Health River Region Medical Center, Vicksburg, Miss. He was 86. A native of Washington County, he had been a resident… Read More

The Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration announced January 9 that they have revised the schedule to complete an environmental impact statement (EIS)… Read More

ABS held a ribbon-cutting ceremony January 8 to formally open its new global headquarters in Spring, Texas. “This is a significant milestone in our 157-year history and reaffirms… Read More

Robert L. Scragg, 91, died January 1 at the Suwannee Health and Rehab Center in Live Oak, Fla. A World War II Navy veteran, Scragg worked in… Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Commercial Vessel Compliance announced the publication of the 2017 Domestic Vessel Annual Report. The announcement was posted December 11 by Lt. Amy… Read More

The Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard accepted a salvage plan developed by salvors Big River Salvage and McKinney Salvage to retrieve barges pinned against the… Read More

The Coast Guard responded January 8 to a sunken towing vessel, the mv. Tom Bussler, near the Kentucky Lock and Dam on the Tennessee River. Watchstanders at Coast… Read More