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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

House Democrats Introduce New Infrastructure Framework Washington Waves

House Democrats Introduce New Infrastructure Framework

January 31, 2020

Washington, D.C.—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a group of her key committee chairmen and freshman lawmakers to try and resuscitate infrastructure as a potential bipartisan issue by announcing a… 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 Bills Still Face Major Hurdles Washington Waves

Spending Bills Still Face Major Hurdles

November 8, 2019

Washington, D.C.—After months of delay, the U.S. Senate easily advanced its first minibus appropriations measure for fiscal year 2020 that includes funding for the Maritime Administration (MarAd) and other transportation… Read More

Mississippi River Mayors, Federal Agencies and Cruise Industry Partner on Water Quality Project AQSC_197_final_flattened

Mississippi River Mayors, Federal Agencies and Cruise Industry Partner on Water Quality Project

September 19, 2019

Mayors who are part of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI), along with representatives from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Maritime Administration… Read More

Marine Highway Designations Growing WJ Editorial

Marine Highway Designations Growing

August 1, 2019

The Maritime Administration recently announced nine new Marine Highway designations. Designation is supposed to give projects better access to federal grant programs. Three of the new designations are for ferry… Read More

Leaders Reach Two-Year Budget Agreement Washington Waves

Leaders Reach Two-Year Budget Agreement

July 26, 2019

Washington, D.C.—Members of the waterways industry welcomed a two-year budget agreement announced by President Donald Trump and quickly endorsed by top congressional leaders from both parties. “We look forward to… Read More