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The Rock Island Engineer District, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, will host a public open house today (March 26)… Read More

Damen Shipyards Group announced in mid-March that it has recently unveiled a Water Injection Dredger (WID), courtesy of a plug and play system aboard a Damen Multi-Cat. Such capabilities are… Read More

Representatives of the Mississippi Valley Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) gathered in New Orleans, La., February 28 and March 1 for the organization’s 2018 construction roundtable… Read More

Heartland Barge has hired Blake Grimmett as its grain freight sales manager. Grimmett recently moved to St. Louis, Mo., from New York, where he worked for Lansing Trade Group for… Read More

Northern Lights announced March 8 that it has delivered its 55,000th generator to Damen Shipyard in a ceremony at Damen’s headquarters. The 80 kw. Northern Lights M1066T generator set will… Read More

A tow of 28 barges broke up in the Lower Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Miss., on March 19 after the towboat pushing it lost power and the current pushed the… Read More

Arlen “Benny” Cenac Jr., CEO of Houma, La.-based Cenac Marine Services and owner of Main Iron Works, announced earlier this month a contract for the Houma shipyard to build four… Read More

BAE Systems Inc., with its United States headquarters located in Arlington, Va., announced around the first of March the immediate cessation of ship repair operations at its Mobile, Ala., shipyard,… Read More

More than 125 student volunteers showed up in Grafton, Ill., in March to help Living Lands & Waters remove 26,632 pounds of garbage from the shoreline near the confluence of… Read More

The scheduled repairs to the main lock chamber at Melvin Price Locks and Dam at Upper Mississippi Mile 200.8 in Alton, Ill., just north of St. Louis, were completed and… Read More