The Coast Guard responded to a partially submerged vessel on the Upper Mississippi River near Cairo, Ill., October 9. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley received… 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.
Enjoy a little music, a lot of food and drinks, and plenty of fun touring working towboats and experiencing life on the Mississippi River during the annual Grafton Towboat… Read More
Superior Industries Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, many of which are in use on the inland waterways, announced October 2… Read More
The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) praised the Senate’s passage of America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018/Water Resources Development Act (WRDA 2018), on October 10 by a 99 to 1… Read More
Damen placed second in the maritime & aviation sector in this year’s MT500 rankings of the top 500 companies and institutions in the Netherlands. It also… Read More
The dredging contractor Dutch Dredging of the Netherlands has added two new vessels to its fleet, the Papillon and the Fregate. The vessels were delivered to… Read More
The Panama Canal reached a new milestone with the transit of four liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships with beams of up to 160 feet in a single day through the… Read More
Van Oord and Dredging International, a DEME Group subsidiary, have been awarded a contract to deepen and widen a 62-kilometer (38-mile) section… Read More
Dubuque Barge & Fleeting Services Company of Iowa has been awarded a $7.475 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District for the Corps Island Dredged… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has begun using a biofuel blend for its trailing suction hopper dredge Prins der Nederlanden and previously used a B50 biofuel… Read More
