Whatever happened to the “infrastructure president” who posed against a backdrop of working towboats on the Ohio River? Wherever he was, he was nowhere to be found in the administration’s… Read More
WJ Editorial
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The long impeachment drama is finally over, as the Senate acquitted President Donald Trump of two charges with votes of 52–48 and 53–47, respectively. While the drama has enthralled official… Read More
On January 23, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, along with R.D. James, the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, signed the Navigable Waters Protection Rule. The rule replaces the… Read More
Most businesses thrive on, or at least aspire to, predictability and certainty. One businessman recently said that he would rather have several predictable “OK” years in a row than dramatic… Read More
The so-called Phase 1 trade deal with China was signed to much fanfare January 15, while the Senate passed the United State-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and sent it to President Trump… Read More
Great boats have great stories. Take my dad’s old Bass Tracker fishing boat from the ’90s, which went on a middle-of-the-night joy ride down the Black Warrior River below Tuscaloosa,… Read More
Container-on-barge will happen; but when? Versions of that sentiment have been circulating among the inland navigation community for decades. Various COB experiments on the inland waterways have come and gone,… Read More
The new year is a good time to remind readers of The Waterways Journal of changes arriving in how we cover dredging and marine construction issues. Over the past few… Read More
On December 11, the Customs and Border Patrol announced its intention of moving forward with a controversial interpretation of maritime transportation rules. The change, which at least one maritime law… Read More
President Donald Trump and his aides have been trumpeting the first phase of what they claim is a game-changing trade deal with China. The 86-page deal—expected to be signed in… Read More
