Author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same. … You realized what’s changed is you.”… Read More
Mississippi River
“It was the Wild West for some of the barge fleets on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans,” Alan Savoie said. He was speaking of the… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District will open Lower St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam and Lock and Dam 1, both in Minneapolis, to commercial and recreational navigation traffic April… Read More
Russellville, Ala.-based G&G Steel Inc., which also has operations in Cordova, Ala., on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River (Warrior River Steel) and in Iuka, Miss., on the… Read More
More than 130 people tuned into PIANC USA’s “Sustainable Practices for Navigable Waterways” webinar March 25. The free webinar is the first offered in 2026 by the United States’ chapter… Read More
By any measure, the Columbia and Snake river system is a very different operating environment from the Mississippi, Ohio and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Cargo mixes differ. Tow configurations differ. Infrastructure… Read More
By an inherited quirk of accepted usage, the Mississippi River and its tributary system are still sometimes referred to as “the Western Rivers,” harkening back to a time when the… Read More
The Old Boat Column tends to detail a lot of vessels that became “firsts” of their kind, but, for a change, the next two weeks it will look at two… Read More
The Port of South Louisiana marked the completion of a new dock access bridge at its Globalplex Intermodal Terminal, calling the project a reliability and capacity upgrade designed to keep… Read More
After close to 10 years in business, Barnes Marine Service has invested in a new warehouse at 1201 N. 6th St. in Paducah, Ky. The 16,600-square-foot facility represents a major… Read More
