Regarded as one of the most beautiful steamboats afloat, the Virginia made big news 109 years ago when it wandered out of the flooding Ohio River on the night… Read More
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This year’s high-water season is increasing attention on barge safety. One particular incident, reported in the March 25 Waterways Journal, especially caught the notice of Patrick Dever,… Read More
Amid ongoing flooding and high water along most U.S. river systems, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its spring flood outlook March 21, forecasting widespread flooding to… Read More
The New Orleans chapter of Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) hosted a lunch & learn March 12 at the Jones Walker Law Firm in downtown New Orleans… Read More
The American Equity Underwriters Inc. (AEU) is the program administrator for the American Longshore Mutual Association and a leading provider of United States Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act… Read More
A mariner on the Lower Mississippi could pass by the New Orleans riverfront a thousand times and not even know it, but there’s a ship buried there, near the… Read More
In the wake of the sentencing of a Mississippi towboat captain for illegally using revoked merchant mariner documents to work as a captain, the Coast Guard is drawing attention… Read More
Built at Louisville, Ky., in 1857, the large sidewheeler Red Rover ran in the Nashville–New Orleans packet trade. Constructed on a wooden hull that measured 256 feet in length… Read More
The year is 1967. Teledyne Corporation has just acquired Berwick, La.-based Sewart Seacraft, a shipyard known best for its military patrol craft. Part of the acquisition was the shipyard’s… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard received word around 3 p.m. March 7 that the mv. St. Rita, a towboat owned and operated by Marquette Transportation Company, sank on the right descending… Read More
