Vern Gwin, chief of operations for the Mobile Engineer District, provided updates during the annual Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association conference. Continued lock maintenance remained a major focus following emergency repairs completed… Read More
Demopolis Lock
The Tennessee River Valley Association (TRVA) and Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council will hold their joint 59th annual meeting March 23 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Franklin Cool Springs in Franklin,… Read More
In just the past few years, the barge industry has had to contend with a number of unscheduled lock and dam closures, including those at Wilson Lock, Holt Lock and Demopolis Lock in Alabama. It also… Read More
One of America’s newest waterways, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), turned 40 last month. Four decades ago, on January 14, 1985, the mv. Eddie Waxler departed Mobile, Ala., and headed… Read More
Thanksgiving Day is a uniquely American tradition that many other countries admire. This Thanksgiving season, we in the inland maritime community—and the communities scattered along our waterways—have a lot to… Read More
Updates on infrastructure projects, industry priorities and proposed legislation were part of the Tennessee River Valley Association and Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council’s annual meeting September 30-October 1 in Franklin, Tenn. Read More
Aging infrastructure will be a prime topic of the Tennessee River Valley Association Conference September 30-October 1 in Franklin, Tenn. TRVA executive director Cline Jones said issues at… Read More
The 74th annual meeting of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA) may go down as one of the most celebratory, thanks to the May 16 reopening of Demopolis Lock in… Read More
Four months to the day after the upper miter sill failed at Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River, the lock reopened to navigation May 16, roughly two weeks ahead… Read More
There’s light at the end of the lock chamber for stakeholders of both the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway (BWT) and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), with emergency repairs almost complete at… Read More
