Developers of the Port of West Virginia, a multifunctional, transmodal inland port terminal on the Ohio River in the city of Follansbee, are seeking public and private investments for… Read More
COB
For years, said Neal Langdon, executive vice president of Arcosa Marine Products Inc., proponents of container-on-barge (COB) have had difficulty persuading stakeholders to invest in shoreside COB assets because… Read More
Container-on-barge will happen; but when? Versions of that sentiment have been circulating among the inland navigation community for decades. Various COB experiments on the inland waterways have come and… Read More
The Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority recently announced that it is preparing to launch the first container-on-barge (COB) service on the Ohio River and in the state of Kentucky. With COB… Read More
Like many other riverports and manufacturing centers, the Memphis, Tenn., area economy has been growing at a welcome clip recently. Unemployment is at historic lows, and some employers are… Read More
Containers will be key to continued growth of the port. (Photo courtesy of Port of New Orleans) For the Port of New Orleans, 2017 was a year of… Read More
The boomer generation well remembers the famous career advice given to a young Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman in his breakout role in The Graduate, by an industrialist… Read More
