Stakeholders of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), which connects the Tennessee River at the shared border of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile, Ala., will gather… 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.
The American Waterways Operators (AWO) and the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) have launched a new initiative designed to document issues towboat crews experience with moveable bridges and report validated… Read More
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) stakeholders will gather in New Orleans August 7–9 for the 119th annual seminar of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA). GICA President Paul Dittman sat down… Read More
Kentucky transportation officials are working with the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd) to designate additional Kentucky rivers as marine highways. On June 11, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet received notice that the… Read More
Washington, D.C.—The U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) is seeking information on the types of planning guidance, documents, datasets and federal funding opportunities used in planning for long-term… Read More
Washington D.C.—Citing the “single-greatest threat” from China, House Speaker Mike Johnson said the U.S. must reinvest in its maritime sector and begin building new ships and shipyards at home. Johnson… Read More
A fast patrol boat that served in the Vietnam War is heading upriver to serve as the first maritime training vessel on the inland waterways later this month. PTF-26… Read More
When Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast near Matagorda, 100 miles southwest of Houston, as a Category 1 storm at 4 a.m. local time July 8, it brought power outages,… Read More
The Mobile Engineer District is moving closer to identifying temporary and permanent fixes to the monolith instability issue that forced an emergency closure of Holt Lock on the Black Warrior… Read More
In one of the year’s most closely watched cases, the Supreme Court on June 28 ruled 6-3 in favor of overturning a 40-year-old interpretive rule created by an earlier Supreme… Read More
