Loadstar, a product-handling and site logistics company based in Baton Rouge, La., marked four years of service on February 1. The company provides tankerman and dock services, barge fleeting, rail… Read More
Brownsville
For 42 years, Ben Jackson was an operator on a line-stripping rig, unloading more than a million tons of rock a year for Luhr Bros., the most in company… Read More
Built by the Axton yard at Brownsville, Pa., in 1895, the sturdy sternwheel towboat Tornado was constructed, to specifications drawn by J.M. Hammitt, on a wooden hull that measured… Read More
Loved your story about cars-on-barge cargo, and the great picture (Old Boat Column, WJ, March 1). Towing companies need to learn about the new Kia auto factory in… Read More
Seattle-based Manson Construction Company has announced a contract with Keppel AmFELS of Brownsville, Texas, to build a new trailing suction hopper dredge to be named the Frederick Paup. Read More
The Port of Brownsville, Texas, set new records in tonnage and total operating revenue in 2018, moving 11.3 million tons of diverse cargos with operating revenues of more than… Read More
The Corps of Engineers announced that the almost four-year process of decommissioning and recycling the Sturgis, the world’s first floating nuclear plant, was completed March 18 at the International… Read More
The Port of Brownsville (Texas) presented West Plains LLC with its 2018 Chairman’s Award in recognition of the company’s investments and rehabilitation efforts of the port’s iconic grain elevator. Read More
