The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will embark on a pair of simultaneous lock closures August 30 when the Vicksburg District begins maintenance at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and the… Read More
Atchafalaya River
The New Orleans and Vicksburg Engineer Districts have a pair of lock closures scheduled for this summer and fall that will temporarily disrupt navigation on both the Red and Ouachita… Read More
The Mississippi River Commission (MRC) concluded its annual high-water inspection trip aboard the mv. Mississippi on April 8 in Baton Rouge, La. It was the fourth stop along the Mississippi… Read More
In the final days of the Trump administration, residents of southeast Louisiana received a parting gift from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the form of “new start”… Read More
Oak Brook, Ill.-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation has announced five newly awarded contracts totaling $59.8 million, which brings the company’s total contracts awarded in the third quarter of… Read More
Almost six years have passed since the Port of Morgan City saw its last foreign-flagged ship call on the port. From late 2014 to early 2015, 22 ships called on… Read More
The Mississippi River in New Orleans just wrapped up close to six months above 11 feet at the Carrollton Gage, the trigger point for Phase 1 flood fight operations on… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a Marine Accident Brief (MAB) April 14 detailing an April 24, 2019, allision between Terral River Service’s mv. Edna T. Gattle and the… Read More
Updated February 10 The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway reopened to navigation February 7, less than five days after a vessel ran aground near Berwick, La., leaving a loaded hopper barge damaged… Read More
Western Rivers Boat Management, Paducah, Ky., recently unveiled a new fleeting area on the Lower Mississippi River, the company said in an announcement September 19. “We are excited to announce… Read More
