Missouri River management practices are the focus of a new bill in Congress, as well as of a lawsuit whose latest phase will take place in June. Missouri Sen. Roy… Read More
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Inland waterways stakeholders reacted strongly to President Donald Trump’s proposed 2021 budget, which contains no money at all for construction of ongoing priority navigation projects cost-shared with the Inland Waterways… Read More
Washington, D.C.—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a group of her key committee chairmen and freshman lawmakers to try and resuscitate infrastructure as a potential bipartisan issue by announcing a… Read More
Three public meetings in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Nashville this week are the final step in a year-long study to create what is to become a guiding document for the Ohio… Read More
Washington, D.C. –-American Waterways Operators president and CEO Tom Allegretti said U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has eroded the Jones Act and opened the door for foreign vessels to… Read More
The Rock Island Engineer District announced to employees and stakeholders that some of its civil works missions will be transferred to the Chicago Engineer District. The operations of T.J. O’Brien… Read More
Washington, D.C.—Members of the waterways industry chalked up key gains on appropriations, defense authorization and trade despite the historic drama of Donald J. Trump becoming only the third U.S. president… Read More
Washington, D.C.—The American Waterways Operators (AWO) announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Carpenter has been named AWO’s next president and CEO effective January 1. Carpenter will succeed… Read More
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, signed a Chief of Engineers Report for the proposed Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Brazos River Floodgates and Colorado… Read More
Washington, D.C.—After months of delay, the U.S. Senate easily advanced its first minibus appropriations measure for fiscal year 2020 that includes funding for the Maritime Administration (MarAd) and other transportation… Read More
