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… Read More
Atchafalaya River
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… 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… 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… 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
In Morgan City, La., where the Atchafalaya River draws near to the Gulf of Mexico, sediment pushed down from both the Red River and the Mississippi River continues… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officially announced plans Monday (May 27) to operate the Morganza Control Structure and Floodway. With a new crest on the already swollen Mississippi River… Read More
The Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans, La., was closed for several hours February 27 after it was struck by the crude oil tanker ship Clio, which was northbound. Read More
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced February 11 they have filed a lawsuit against the federal government of the United States over… Read More
