Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) has cut steel for the new medium class hopper dredge the shipyard is building for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The shipyard… Read More
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The Mississippi River Commission (MRC) will hold four public meetings in March and April during its annual high-water inspection trip on the mv. Mississippi. The hearings welcome residents, stakeholders and… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) “urgently” recommended March 20 that 30 owners of 68 bridges across 19 states conduct a vulnerability assessment to determine the risk of bridge collapse… Read More
More than 1 million people are expected to attend a new festival along the Ohio River this fall featuring nine excursion boats from seven different cities. America’s River Roots Festival… Read More
Ken Eriksen Temperatures are warming up, daffodils are blooming, farmers are wanting to plant crops, river levels have been surging and falling and barge freight rates are stagnant. Spring… Read More
The Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association (GNOBFA) will host its 41st annual Marine Industry Seminar in just over a month. As in years past, the GNOBFA seminar will take… Read More
Rocket Lab USA of Long Beach, Calif., has announced the acquisition of a barge from New Orleans-based Canal Barge Company that will serve as an ocean landing platform for rockets… Read More
Royce C. Wilken Royce C. Wilken, who spent 38 years at Archer Daniels Midland, served as the president of American River Transportation Company, and chaired both the American Waterways Operators… Read More
Having “grown up” around towboats and rivermen, then working actively on the river for more than 50 years, this writer has heard of many superstitions and omens of “bad luck”… Read More
Capt. Scott Dupriest is a captain with Tennessee Valley Towing on the mv. Tom Freeman, a twin-screw 3,450 hp. boat built by Marine Welding & Repair Works in Greenville, Miss.,… Read More
