In December 2022, The Waterways Journal covered The Water Institute’s crowdsourced bathymetry (CSB) and modeling efforts under its SmartPort project—an effort to provide both near real-time and forecast channel conditions. Read More
fleeting
Alan Savoie Alan Savoie has spent his long career in fleeting operations with Cooper/T. Smith, and he currently serves as director of marketing and development for Cooper Consolidated. Read More
With the recent addition of a drydock, Industry (Pa.) Terminal & Salvage Company, operator of three barge fleets from Miles 3.6 to 65 on the Ohio River, is pushing forward… Read More
Northern Marine LLC, the marine transportation division of Illinois & Michigan Oil LLC (IMO), announced last week that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Chicago-area fleeting… Read More
Grundy County (Ill.) Judge Sheldon Sobol will hold a hearing on January 28, 2022, at which he’ll be asked to rule definitively on a barge fleeting permit. Illinois… Read More
In late May, Bayou La Batre, Ala.-based Steiner Construction Company delivered a pair of new-built towboats to American Commercial Barge Line (ACBL), with both vessels joining ACBL’s operations in the… Read More
Turn Services, a New Orleans-based barge fleeting and shifting company that also offers barge repair and cleaning services, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and business… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its Marine Accident Brief (MAB) March 16 detailing a collision that occurred in March 2019 involving the mv. St. Rita and a… Read More
Lt. Cmdr. Takila Powell has been with the Coast Guard since 2002. Before she arrived back in the Investigations Department of District 8 in New Orleans in June (where… Read More
For nearly 30 years, Turn Services, the New Orleans-based fleeting and shifting company with operations from Baton Rouge, La., to the Gulf and along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, has… Read More
