Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced $500,000 in grants to four Kentucky riverports on July 5. The grants are for infrastructure improvements and equipment upgrades. “An efficient transportation… Read More
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Amid the crowd gathered for the opening of a new U.S. 60 bridge over the Cumberland River in Smithland, Ky., Muriel Dickerson stood out. Dickerson, 102, was living… Read More
Crews work to remove methanol barge from dam. The barge was successfully lightered and removed with no leaks. (Photo by Jay Rickman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) A… Read More
More than a week after barges broke loose from a tow and became pinned against McAlpine Dam, a salvage crew was preparing to begin pumping 1,400 metric tons of… Read More
Standing aboard the mv. Mississippi for the Mississippi River Commission’s annual high-water inspection trip March 27, Maj. Gen. Diana Holland said this trip would be her last… Read More
The Kentucky legislature has approved a resolution to support the Jones Act. Titled House Concurrent Resolution 5, the International Propeller Club’s Port of Paducah (Ky.) collaboratively authored… Read More
About 50 members of the Central Ohio River Business Association (CORBA) and their guests toured the Nucor Steel Gallatin plant in Ghent, Ky., as part of their winter meeting… Read More
McCracken County, Ky., and its economic development partners have applied for a $3.5 million federal grant that would allow the development of a new public riverport on wooded property… Read More
The Paducah-McCracken County (Ky.) Riverport Authority has its first new customer for its general cargo facility in years with PRCO America Inc., which has begun moving raw materials for… Read More
First responders rescued six people from a towboat February 17 after it became stuck on a rock dike in the Lower Mississippi River near Columbus, Ky. Hickman… Read More
