Lower Mississippi River

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

Mv. George King ablaze. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard) The mv. George King, a towboat in Marquette Transportation Company’s fleet, caught fire January 24 at Mile… Read More

Members of the Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC) met in New Orleans, La., January 9 to finalize the group’s recommendations for repealing, replacing or modifying certain… Read More

When Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded “La Nouvelle-Orléans” in the spring of 1718—traditionally, it was May 7, 1718—he no doubt spent days sailing up the Mississippi River,… Read More

A hydrologist at Louisiana State University (LSU) presented research at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in New Orleans, La.,  earlier this month on how sedimentation near the… Read More