Two American river cruise passenger companies have announced their cruise schedules for summer 2020. American Cruise Lines will be first out of the gate, with cruises on its vessel American… Read More
COVID-19
The first all-virtual FreightWeekSTL event was held May 18–22 in St. Louis, packing in a convention’s worth of content into five days. This year’s event was originally to have been… Read More
The River School in Memphis, Tenn., is already offering one non-virtual class and will fully reopen in June, according to Bill Kline, president and CEO of The River School. The… Read More
This week, we report on the cautious reopening of The River School in Memphis, Tenn. The Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa, is also reopening June 1, as are some… Read More
Last August, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed extending the amount of time operators of “certain high-speed vessels”—pilot boats and some smaller vessels—have to comply with the upcoming switch to clean-burning… Read More
Several Carylon Corporation companies have taken up the fight against COVID-19 by providing disease cleanup and disinfection services to ensure facilities are clean and employees are working in a safe… Read More
Llebroc Industries has turned its sewing machines and commercial fabric cutters from manufacturing captain’s chairs and other boat seating to making cloth face masks for those in need. “We thought… Read More
With the drastic increase in COVID-19 cases, the USNS Comfort was recently deployed to New York to provide relief for land-based hospitals that were over capacity and struggling to keep… Read More
The American Waterways Operators (AWO), as part of its monthly webinar series addressing the impacts of COVID-19 on the maritime industry, hosted a panel of experts May 12 that focused… Read More
By Shelley Byrne and Frank McCormack The coronavirus pandemic has been rough on the inland marine industry, but company representatives say they are pulling together, taking appropriate safety measures and… Read More
