The first session of the recently concluded Inland Marine Expo detailed and celebrated the close collaboration between private barge operators, the Corps of Engineers and Coast Guard in applying lessons… Read More
WJ Editorial
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The United States is a resource-rich country feeding and fueling its people and others around the globe. Farmers across the vast production areas of the U.S. grow an abundance… Read More
As societies search for the best paths to net zero across different fields and sectors, it has become common to read stories in the media about how these sectors are… Read More
Thanks to another injection of funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, some major waterways projects are 100 percent fully funded to completion in the latest Corps of Engineers work plan. Read More
On May 14, a delegation of transportation and logistics counselors from embassies around the world descended upon Memphis, Tenn., to learn about rivers, rails, roads and runways. They got… Read More
For its 11th annual session, the Inland Marine Expo again welcomes to Nashville representatives of organizations that collectively form, serve and depend on the marine transportation industry: barge and towing… Read More
“So goes transportation, so goes the economy” is a common refrain, but is that so? Yes, transportation carries the economy, and the economy depends on transportation. That transportation includes… Read More
During the recent River and Marine Industry Seminar in New Orleans sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association, the panel that sparked the most buzz was the one… Read More
Regarding recent articles in WJ concerning the Dali which struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge: the Dali was not accompanied by a tug. It would have seemed to me that… Read More
“We share [Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works] Michael Connor’s goal of attending fewer ground-breakings and more ribbon-cuttings,” said Spencer Murphy, chairman of the Inland Waterways Users Board. Read More
