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
Kentucky
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
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
Capt. Bobby Wilson Capt. Bobby Wilson, a heavy-tow pilot on the mv. Lewis B. Strait, has been on the river for 35 years. That would be close… Read More
Graestone Logistics LLC, Murray, Ky., added two vessels to its fleet recently, both previously owned by Genesis Marine LLC, Houston, Texas. Twin-screw towboats, the vessels are the mvs. CGB… Read More
The Coast Guard reported last week that the mv. Virginia Renee, the Terral RiverService towboat that sank near Mile 823 on the Lower Mississippi River on January 24, had… Read More
The burned-out mv. George King following January 24 fire. (Photo by Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Giles) The mv. George King, the Marquette Transportation Company… Read More
