Vessels transiting the Morgan City-Port Allen alternative route on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana will be dealing with weekday daytime closures at Bayou Sorrel Lock through the fall due… Read More
Algiers Lock
The New Orleans Engineer District will begin a 60-day closure at Algiers Lock on October 2 to repair damage incurred in a July 4 allision. On Independence Day, a towing… Read More
Communication and partnerships. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) stakeholders would agree those are two words that have defined the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) for years. And in his two years… Read More
About 6 p.m. on July 4, a towing vessel pushing a loaded barge entered Algiers Lock in New Orleans from the Mississippi River, bound for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW),… Read More
The Corps of Engineers’ lock-closure schedules through 2024 were the topic when barge industry stakeholders and Corps officials from multiple districts met September 7 at the St. Louis District’s Service… Read More
In early August, the New Orleans Engineer District released the final version of the Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity (LPV) and the West Bank & Vicinity (WBV) General Re-evaluation Reports, which… Read More
Over the last 30 days, the communities along Bayou Sorrel and the Port Allen Alternate Route of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) have seen an astounding amount of rainfall on… Read More
Included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which was signed into law February 9, is $17.398 billion set aside for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fund a… Read More
