May 21 was the Louisville Propeller Club’s Maritime Day Ceremony. The “Laying of the Wreath” honoring sailors and rivermen who have lost their lives in service of the… Read More
Kentucky
A new ferry service crossing the Ohio River between Rising Sun, Ind., and Rabbit Hash, Ky., could begin service in late July. The 10-car ferry barge and the… Read More
The mv. River Cleanup before modifications. (Photo courtesy of The Shearer Group Inc.) Shearer Group Inc. was contracted in 2017 by Living Lands & Waters (LLW), an… Read More
Hubert Carlton Decker Hubert Carlton Decker, 93, of Hardinsburg, Ky., died January 16 at Breckinridge Memorial Hospital. He was retired from Teco Energy, formerly Mid-South Towing Company, where… Read More
Judge Goebel Long Jr., 87, of Paducah, Ky., died February 28 at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah. Long was a riverboat captain for 58 years for multiple companies and… Read More
Three Rivers Boat & Barge, Ledbetter, Ky., announced that it is in the process of building a new 1,800-ton drydock for barge repair at its 38-acre shipyard located at… Read More
R&D Associates has seen a surge in damaged barges at its facility this year due to heavy ice floes and flooding on the Ohio River. A heavy layer of… Read More
Sennebogen 870 R-HD can reach down 50 feet to unload barges in low water. (photo courtesy of Sennebogen) Located at the confluence of the Tennessee, Ohio and Cumberland rivers, and just… Read More
Just prior to opening its new office in Paducah, Ky., Inland Rivers HR had the building blessed. Chaplains Kempton Baldridge and Don Reusch, both with the Seamen’s Church Institute, oversaw… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District announced March 2 that it is continuing its flood control operation by using flood control storage in Lake Barkley to help mitigate the ongoing flood event… Read More
