Since acquiring Empco-Lite nearly four years ago, the Edgecombe family has taken a deliberate, operations-driven approach to expanding the company’s footprint on the inland river system and along the Gulf… Read More
Mississippi River
Chief Warrant Officer Paul Zado Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico has seen a lot of crew members come and go over the… Read More
Capt. James “JD” Adams Waterways Journal readers know that towboat leaders can come from all kinds of backgrounds. Not all of them come from families of towboaters. That was the… Read More
Capt. Steven Nicoulin The Steamboat Natchez is a fixture of the New Orleans riverfront. The steam-driven passenger vessel was built just downriver in Braithwaite, La., and has been plying the… Read More
Capt. Mark Charles When Capt. Mark Charles first noticed towboats with barges in tow past South Point, Ohio, he had no idea the… Read More
A wave of AI-generated “deepfake” videos about the Mississippi River has been circulating online—videos that claim, among other things, that the river is “losing water,” that agencies… Read More
Included in this issue of The Waterways Journal, as promised, is a story about a deepfake video that some of our readers may have already seen. This video and others… Read More
The Ohio River valley, along with much of the Mississippi River system, recently went through winter storm Fern, which dumped several inches of snow in the upper regions, freezing rain… Read More
The media landscape continues to change. The many ways people read, watch or listen to content important to them continue to evolve. You may see some of those changes reflected… Read More
A winter storm that hit much of the inland waterways system January 24-26 continued to cause impacts a week later, with below-freezing temperatures persisting in many areas. Ohio River One… Read More
