The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded the first contract to jumpstart the deepening of the Mississippi River Ship Channel from Baton Rouge, La., to the Gulf of Mexico… Read More
Big River Coalition
Less than six weeks after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Louisiana signed the project partnership agreement for deepening the Mississippi River Ship Channel… Read More
The 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans carried the theme “fresh water as a source of life.” It’s a maxim borne out over the years in south Louisiana by… Read More
Representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Louisiana met in New Orleans July 31 to sign a project partnership agreement for deepening the Mississippi River… Read More
Sean Duffy, executive director of the Big River Coalition, which advocates and promotes maritime commerce on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, has been named to Louisiana’s Committee of 100… Read More
The Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council and The Coal Institute held the annual World Trade & Transport Conference February 20 at the Omni Royal Orleans hotel in New Orleans’… Read More
For ports, terminals and stakeholders along two of the South’s major waterways, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2020 work plan, released February 10, marks a major milestone in the… Read More
Visitors to the Pass A’Loutre Wildlife Management Area to the south and east of Head of Passes on the Lower Mississippi River will have to watch where they step this… 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
By Judith Powers and Sean Duffy There are 6,800 acres of new marshland bordering the Passes of the Mississippi River—land that was created starting in 2011 by a coalition intent on… Read More
