The National Transportation Safety Board recommended on October 24 that engineroom fire detection and fixed fire extinguishing systems be installed in small passenger vessels previously exempted from U.S. Coast… 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.
A charity well known on the river is benefiting from the fact that the 2023 St. Louis Inland River Seminar was very well attended. The number of attendees… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) reported a net loss of $6.2 million for the third quarter on revenues of $117.2 million. A year ago, the company reported… Read More
Caterpillar Marine announced recently that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Singapore-headquartered Strategic Marine (S) Pte Ltd. Strategic Marine is internationally renowned for producing quality, high-performance… Read More
Bristol Harbor Group Inc. (BHGI) announced November 13 that it has been selected by Casco Bay Lines (CBL), Portland, Maine, to provide naval architecture and marine engineering services… Read More
The Mississippi River Discovery Center in Dubuque, Iowa, will undergo a two-phase renovation beginning in April 2024. The renovation is part of the Preserve the Wonder Capital Campaign,… Read More
Reggie McLeod, editor and publisher of Big River Magazine, was honored recently with the National Achievement Award, the highest honor presented by the National Rivers Hall of Fame. Read More
The initial images from Algiers Lock in New Orleans back in the summer, following a July 4 allision, certainly made an impression. Around 6 p.m. that day, the… Read More
An international logistics firm, Deugro, has announced it has opened a new 96,775-square-feet operations and logistics terminal in Baytown, Texas. Deugro is a family-owned global firm whose name is… Read More
The Jones Act is once again being targeted by its enemies in the wake of a series of setbacks facing the wind industry. The Danish company Ørsted,… Read More