C&C Marine and Repair has delivered the mv. Mimsy H. Lindner to Canal Barge Company, completing a four-vessel series of 2,600 hp. towboats for the New Orleans-based operator. Read More
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President Donald Trump’s 2025 Executive Order 14269 called for the creation of Maritime Prosperity Zones modeled on the 2017 Opportunity Zones in the Tax Cuts and Opportunity Act. Read More
Despite the midsummer heat, there was a festive atmosphere August 8 at ARTCo’s St. Louis riverfront facility at First Street in south St. Louis as the company christened the… Read More
When Lindsey Launius describes the last year at the River Discovery Center in Paducah, Ky., she uses one word repeatedly: momentum. Launius, the river museum’s executive director, described… Read More
A new freight study examining the underused connection between the Great Lakes and the inland waterway system is pointing to opportunities to move more cargo between the two networks… Read More
Nine inland and Gulf Coast shipyards will receive a combined $7.25 million through the Maritime Administration’s 2026 Small Shipyard Grant Program, part of $35.18 million awarded to 45 shipyards… Read More
From Federal Barge Line and St. Louis’ crowded barge scene to deregulation, single-sideband radio and AI, three shoreside veterans reflected on five decades of inland change. Mark Mayfield, Stephen Rauch… Read More
No one was injured, but a dredge was hit August 13 when 11 barges broke away from their tow. “Our understanding is that when a towing vessel was transiting in… Read More
They may not spend a watch in the wheelhouse or appear in line-handling reels on TikTok, but they’re nonetheless indispensable to the 24-hour movement of towboats on the… Read More
A donation from Amherst Madison to the Point Pleasant River Museum & Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center has launched a fundraising campaign to support the expansion of its towboat… Read More
