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Industry Leaders Share Success Stories From ‘Who Works The Rivers’ Brian Karl (left), mechanic for Crescent Towing in New Orleans, speaks to high school students touring the company’s west bank headquarters during a recent Who Works the Rivers event. Andrew Cooper, executive vice president of Crescent Towing, served as tour guide for the students. (Photo courtesy of Crescent Towing)

Brian Karl (left), mechanic for Crescent Towing in New Orleans, speaks to high school students touring the company’s west bank headquarters during a recent Who Works the Rivers event. Andrew Cooper, executive vice president of Crescent Towing, served as tour guide for the students. (Photo courtesy of Crescent Towing)

Industry Leaders Share Success Stories From ‘Who Works The Rivers’

March 6, 2020

RiverWorks Discovery, the educational outreach program of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa, has been sponsoring its popular Who Works the Rivers marine industry career discovery… Read More

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The Steamer Quincy

January 3, 2020

Happy New Year! We begin the Old Boat Column for 2020 with one of the beautiful steamboats operated by the famous Diamond Jo Line, the steamer Quincy. Built at Dubuque,… Read More

The Importance Of Efficient Funding Of River Infrastructure WJ Editorial

The Importance Of Efficient Funding Of River Infrastructure

September 27, 2019

Among the graphics shown by Warren Preston, deputy chief economist of USDA, at a recent conference at the University of Missouri-St. Louis focusing on agricultural market and supply chains, was… Read More

High Runoff Continues In Upper Missouri Basin

September 9, 2019

Widespread and heavy rainfall in the upper Missouri River basin (above Sioux City, Iowa) resulted in another month of above-average runoff, the Corps of Engineers reported September 5. Precipitation during… Read More

River Terminal Changes Name Aerial view of the Logistics Park Dubuque facility, including 20-acre slack water harbor.

River Terminal Changes Name

August 1, 2019

On July 1, IEI Barge Services Inc. announced it was changing its name to Logistics Park Dubuque Inc. (LPD). The company’s address also changed to 5121 Barge Terminal Road in… Read More

Quad Cities Are Loaded With Port Potential The Centennial Bridge, on the left, and Arsenal Island on the right, are key features of the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities area. Davenport, Iowa, is across the river, and Rock Island, Ill., is in the foreground. (Photo courtesy of Dawson & Associates)

The Centennial Bridge, on the left, and Arsenal Island on the right, are key features of the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities area. Davenport, Iowa, is across the river, and Rock Island, Ill., is in the foreground. (Photo courtesy of Dawson & Associates)

Quad Cities Are Loaded With Port Potential

August 1, 2019

Situated on opposite sides of a westward-running stretch of the Upper Mississippi River, the towns of Moline, East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf across the… Read More

Davenport Ponders Permanent Flood Wall

August 1, 2019

Davenport, Iowa, largest of the Quad Cities, received unwanted national attention when a temporary flood barrier failed April 30. The floods inundated several square blocks in Davenport’s downtown and caused… Read More

Floods Approach Records, Extend Lock Closures Only the outlines of the lock walls can be seen as Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam 22 is swamped by floodwater. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District)

Only the outlines of the lock walls can be seen as Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam 22 is swamped by floodwater. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District)

Floods Approach Records, Extend Lock Closures

May 9, 2019

Waves of new storms hit saturated ground throughout the Midwest, sending water barreling into already-swollen rivers, breaching levees, closing locks, flooding cities and approaching all-time flood records across the length… Read More

UMR Locks Close Again With New Crest The pilothouse of the mv. Legacy was heavily damaged when the towboat struck the Eads Bridge in St. Louis May 2.

UMR Locks Close Again With New Crest

May 2, 2019

In a typical high-water season, river traffic would be picking up on the Upper Mississippi River as high water recedes. But nothing has been typical about this season, as snowmelt… Read More

The George M. Verity The retired steam towboat George M. Verity has been a museum at Keokuk since 1961. (Keith Norrington collection)

The George M. Verity

April 19, 2019

In the early spring of 1961, the retired steam towboat George M. Verity became a museum at Keokuk, Iowa. The sternwheeler was floated into a basin and placed upon a… Read More