When Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded “La Nouvelle-Orléans” in the spring of 1718—traditionally, it was May 7, 1718—he no doubt spent days sailing up the Mississippi River,… Read More
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National Maritime Day is observed on May 22, to mark the date that the American steamship Savannah sailed from the United States to England. This was the first successful… Read More
The following is list of Jones Act waivers posted by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MarAd) as of May 7, 2026. Vessel: M/V JPS Elli… Read More
With only six weeks of development, Ports of Indiana has opened a new federally approved bonded storage facility at its Mount Vernon port, enabling it to handle its first barge… Read More
The Port of South Louisiana marked the completion of a new dock access bridge at its Globalplex Intermodal Terminal, calling the project a reliability and capacity upgrade designed to keep… Read More
Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll, assistant secretary of the Army (civil works) Adam Telle, Lt. Gen. William H. “Butch” Graham, the Corps’ chief of engineers and commanding general, and… Read More
Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG), along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Royal IHC, held a keel-laying ceremony January 22 at the shipyard’s Allanton, Fla., facility for… Read More
Capt. Josh Sanford Growing up in Harahan, La., Capt. Josh Sanford was always aware of the river and the boats on it. He remembers riding the steamboat Nachez and also… Read More
For visitors to New Orleans’ Woldenberg Park, located on the left descending bank of the Mississippi River just across the floodwall from the city’s famed French Quarter, container and… Read More
Facing yet another potential federal government shutdown in three weeks, top congressional appropriators wasted no time in advancing a conferenced Energy and Water Development spending measure as part of a… Read More
