More than 125 student volunteers showed up in Grafton, Ill., in March to help Living Lands & Waters remove 26,632 pounds of garbage from the shoreline near the confluence of… Read More
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The scheduled repairs to the main lock chamber at Melvin Price Locks and Dam at Upper Mississippi Mile 200.8 in Alton, Ill., just north of St. Louis, were completed and… Read More
Middle River Marine, Mokena, Ill., the river services affiliate of Chicago-based concrete producer Ozinga, took delivery of a new towboat recently. Built by Steiner Construction Company, Bayou la Batre, Ala.,… Read More
Record-setting rains in the central and upper Midwest in the third week of February combined with melting snowpack to produce sudden and dramatic flooding across an arc from northern Louisiana… Read More
The USS LST 325, a restored World War II landing ship docked in Evansville, Ind., will make its way to Iowa and Illinois for public tours this summer. The war… Read More
Master Marine, Bayou la Batre, Ala., has delivered the mv. Tom Torretti to Waterfront Services Company, Cairo, Ill. The 67- by 28-foot fleet boat is powered by a pair of… Read More
American River Transportation Company, St. Louis, Mo., has taken delivery of the eighth in a series of 11 new towboats from Eymard Marine Construction & Repair in Harvey, La. The… Read More
Illinois politicians are betting that a rejuvenated port district can bring the once-booming river town of Cairo, Ill., back from the grave. Illinois Sen. Dale Fowler (R-Harrisburg) has taken a… Read More
While working as a lawyer in the Gateway City’s grain industry, Kurt Johnson gained an appreciation for the industries that keep cargo on the move and commodity companies in the… Read More
Over the past two decades, the Kaskaskia Port District’s leaders have helped transform the Kaskaskia River from a coal corridor to an export corridor that handles significant amounts of grain… Read More
