Representatives of the Mississippi Valley Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) gathered in New Orleans, La., February 28 and March 1 for the organization’s 2018 construction… Read More
Lower Mississippi River
A tow of 28 barges broke up in the Lower Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Miss., on March 19 after the towboat pushing it lost power and the current pushed… Read More
The Lower Mississippi River remained dangerously high last week, with the Carrollton gage in New Orleans hovering at about 16.5 feet. But the river stage and flow rate through the… Read More
About 9:40 a.m. March 12, the mv. Natalie Jean, a 64- by 26-foot towboat, sank in the Lower Mississippi River at about Mile 90.5 in the New Orleans General Anchorage,… Read More
Capt. Ty Wilkerson Growing up fishing along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, Ty Wilkerson was always intrigued by passing towboats. That interest eventually led… Read More
The mv. Leland Speakes, a twin-screw towboat with a retractable pilothouse built by Jeffboat in 1967, caught fire February 21 on the Lower Mississippi River near Greenville, Miss., the… Read More
The Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council (MVTTC), in tandem with The Coal Institute, held its 36th annual World Trade & Transport Conference February 8 in New Orleans, La.,… Read More
The board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans took an initial step at its January 19 meeting toward studying the feasibility of building a second container terminal… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard responded in the early morning hours of January 24 to a vessel that sunk near Mile 823 on the Lower Mississippi River near Blytheville,… Read More
Last week, the Port of South Louisiana reported its cargo statistics for 2017, which set a cargo-volume record and surpassed 2016’s tonnage mark by 4.4 percent. Read More
