Nucor Corporation announced March 27 that it will build a new state of the art steel plate mill in Brandenburg, Ky., along the Ohio River southwest of Louisville. Read More
Kentucky
This high-water season is threatening to break records along the whole length of several river systems. Higher-than-expected rainfalls in the last weekend of February caused high water in the Ohio… Read More
The Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority recently announced that it is preparing to launch the first container-on-barge (COB) service on the Ohio River and in the state of Kentucky. With COB… Read More
A brief lowering of high water allowed salvage teams to retrieve the sixth of nine sunken barges at McAlpine Dam before the water rose again, suspending operations. Read More
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority announced February 3 that it has elected Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky as its chairman for 2019. In a press release, the authority… Read More
On December 28, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that it had increased the random drug testing rate that marine employers are required to perform on inland and other vessel… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard accepted a salvage plan developed by salvors Big River Salvage and McKinney Salvage to retrieve barges pinned against the… Read More
Rising water has slowed the response efforts of the Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Towing Company to a towboat and barge accident on… Read More
The Coast Guard, Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Towing (TVT) are continuing their response to a bridge allision that occurred the evening of December 25 in Louisville, Ky. The… Read More
A barge towed by the mv. Mary Lucy Lane struck the mv. Gibson, a Corps vessel, causing significant damage to its pilothouse near the Markland Locks and Dam at… Read More
