GICA

Day one of the 120th Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) Seminar featured a pair of sessions focused on waterway infrastructure and federal funding. Tracy Zea, president and CEO of Waterways… Read More

That’s the question that gets asked a lot today, given the extended timelines for big construction projects like locks and dams. A prime example is the 102-year-old Inner Harbor Navigation… Read More

The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), spanning 1,058 river miles from Apalachee Bay, Fla., to Brownsville, Texas, is an all-star performer. From the Mississippi River at New Orleans, the GIWW extends… Read More

In the past decade, more than 1,100 incidents involving a towing vessel and bridge have been recorded by the Coast Guard’s Maritime Information Exchange (see https://cgmix.uscg.mil/IIR/IIRSearch.aspx). Any… Read More

As the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) points out on its website, the association was formed in 1905, decades before there was even an identified body of… Read More

The Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA), the trade organization representing stakeholders of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), will hold its annual seminar July 26–28 in New Orleans. The event… Read More

One of the enduring outgrowths of Hurricane Katrina, at least as it relates to the ports and waterways, is the Gulf Coast Inland Waterways Joint Hurricane Team and the… Read More

Much of the focus of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association’s seminar this year, held August 3–5 in New Orleans, was on waterway operations, issues that towboat crews face on… Read More