The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a Marine Accident Brief for an incident that took place January 16, 2019, near Boothville Anchorage on the Lower Mississippi River at… Read More
Lower Mississippi River
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a Marine Accident Brief June 16 detailing the March 7, 2019, allision between Kirby Inland Marine’s mv. Leviticus and its tow and barges… Read More
The Mississippi River in New Orleans just wrapped up close to six months above 11 feet at the Carrollton Gage, the trigger point for Phase 1 flood fight operations on… Read More
The Bonnet Carré Spillway, the southernmost flood control structure on the Mississippi River, is designed to divert up to 250,000 cubic feet per second (cfs.) of river water northward to… Read More
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has joined a pair of lawsuits challenging the manner in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates the Bonnet Carré Spillway, the southernmost flood… Read More
Associated Terminals, a leading stevedore and terminal operator on the Lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month. And while much of… Read More
In a year that has been packed with unwelcome news, it’s worth taking a moment to pause and remember what was happening a year ago. By May of last year,… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its marine accident brief February 27 detailing its investigation into a February 27, 2019, allision involving the mv. Chad Pregracke, part of Marquette… Read More
In 2020, New Orleans-based Turn Services, one of the largest independent barge fleeting and shifting companies in the United States, is marking 30 years operating on the Lower Mississippi River… Read More
The Lower Mississippi River was closed briefly March 15 following an allision between the mv. Cooperative Spirit and the Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge near Luling, La. The incident occurred at… Read More
