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24 Small Shipyards Garner $19.6 Million In Grants From MarAd

April 24, 2020

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced April 20 the award of $19.6 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MarAd) through the Small Shipyard Grant Program. Twenty-four… Read More

Trump Floats Guidelines For States To End Lockdowns Washington Waves

Trump Floats Guidelines For States To End Lockdowns

April 17, 2020

Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump has laid out a plan to reboot the national economy that includes new guidelines for reopening individual states in stages depending on where they are in… Read More

Owensboro Riverport Moves Forward With BUILD Grant The Owensboro (Ky.) Riverport is utilizing a BUILD grant for road improvements from U.S. 60 to the port and to the main port access road. The port also plans to replace its material handler and spud barge. (Photo courtesy of the Owensboro Riverport Authority)

The Owensboro (Ky.) Riverport is utilizing a BUILD grant for road improvements from U.S. 60 to the port and to the main port access road. The port also plans to replace its material handler and spud barge. (Photo courtesy of the Owensboro Riverport Authority)

Owensboro Riverport Moves Forward With BUILD Grant

April 17, 2020

The Owensboro (Ky.) Riverport is moving forward with millions of dollars in projects, with the help of a $15 million BUILD grant. The riverport received the $11.5 million grant with… Read More

CORBA Discusses Future Of Container Service

Tim Pickering (third from right) of the U.S. Maritime Administration presents a certificate designating a Nucor Steel’s hauling of steel coils by barge from Gallatin, Ky., to customers via the Port of Louisville as a marine highway project. The Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Regional Council of Governments was the project sponor. Partners included Nucor Steel, the Central Ohio River Business Association and several ports in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. (Photo by Shelley Byrne)

CORBA Discusses Future Of Container Service

February 21, 2020

Roughly 80 river industry professionals gathered February 13 to hear about the future of container on barge service during a panel discussion at the Central Ohio River Business Association’s (CORBA)… Read More

South Louisiana, Houston Included In MarAd Port Grants

February 21, 2020

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MarAd) gave ports across the nation a generous Valentine’s Day gift valued at more than $280 million when it announced grants for more… Read More

Changes For Small Shipyard Grant Applicants

January 17, 2020

The Maritime Administration (MarAd) announced some changes to information that must be included on an application for a Small Shipyard Grant in 2020. (See related item in Washington Waves) The… Read More

Nine Projects Receive Marine Highway Grants A crane lifts a container into a barge at the Paducah Riverport. A recent marine highways grant the port received is for the purchase or lease of equipment as an initial step toward beginning regularly scheduled container on barge service between Paducah and Baton Rouge, La. (Photo courtesy of Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority)

A crane lifts a container into a barge at the Paducah Riverport. A recent marine highways grant the port received is for the purchase or lease of equipment as an initial step toward beginning regularly scheduled container on barge service between Paducah and Baton Rouge, La. (Photo courtesy of Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority)

Nine Projects Receive Marine Highway Grants

January 10, 2020

New Paducah–Baton Rouge Project To Receive $480,000 Grant money from the Maritime Administration’s America’s Marine Highway Program will help fund more than $7.5 million for nine projects, including one between… Read More

Grants Point Toward Container-On-Barge Future WJ Editorial

Grants Point Toward Container-On-Barge Future

January 10, 2020

Container-on-barge will happen; but when? Versions of that sentiment have been circulating among the inland navigation community for decades. Various COB experiments on the inland waterways have come and gone,… Read More

Spending Bill Advances, But Continuing Resolution Looms Washington Waves

Spending Bill Advances, But Continuing Resolution Looms

September 19, 2019

Washington, D.C. – Members of the waterways industry welcomed a funding boost proposed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a major spending bill unanimously approved by the Senate… Read More

Government Partnerships On The Waterways Are Focus Of IMX Session

July 5, 2019

Anyone who operates on the nation’s inland waterways knows that commerce wouldn’t flow without partnerships. Chief among them are the partnerships that exist between government agencies and private industry. Those… Read More