The inland barge market likely finished 2024 on a high note with improved U.S. exports of grain, soybeans and products and coal, along with improved barge lockings as highlighted in… Read More
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The Energy Institute (EI), which has been providing impartial energy data since 1952, just released its Statistical Review of World Energy for 2022. EI has always prided itself on being… Read More
Beginning October 31 and running through November 12, the U.N. Climate Change Conference known as COP26 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. Over the past few months, in the runup… Read More
Despite continued outbreaks of COVID-19 in India and a few other hot spots, and the spread of a South African variant, most of the world’s economies expect a summer recovery… Read More
One of the largest and most important rail-to-barge transloading facilities in mid-America is closing, another sign of the decline of the coal era in American power generation. Located north of… Read More
Although its long-term decline might be interrupted by temporary spikes, thermal coal in the U.S. appears to be on the way out. On September 29, a federal judge upheld the… Read More
There’s a new executive at the helm of one of the major deepwater seaports that connect with the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. John Driscoll began as the CEO of the Alabama… Read More
No one operating barges needed to be told that 2019 was a tough year for the barge industry. Historic flooding on most river systems combined with trade turmoil to bring… Read More
Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming has made reform of the Clean Water Act a top priority. In this week’s issue of The Waterways Journal, you will read about a hearing… Read More
In November 2000, officials gathered to welcome an expanded port designation for the Port of Huntington (W.Va.) Tri-State. The port district was expanded from 14 miles in the city of… Read More
