After many years of planning and delays due to high water, and many other issues, work has finally begun on a new excursion boat landing in Kimmswick, Mo. Read More
Missouri
During this final week of 2020, the Old Boat Column takes a fond look back 50 years to the summer of 1970, when the St. Louis levee was still… Read More
The judge in the Ideker Farms Missouri River “takings” case has ordered the Corps of Engineers to pay a group of landowners along the Missouri River for flood… Read More
The last bargeload of the season was unloaded at the Port of St. Joseph, Mo., over the weekend of November 21. Bill Becker, CEO of Transport 360, which… Read More
Thomas Olin Ross Sr., 94, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., died November 26 at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. A World War II Navy veteran, Ross was a chief… Read More
Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., a fertilizer company based in Vancouver, Canada, announced November 3 that it has agreed to buy a granulation facility and terminal on the Mississippi… Read More
We recently covered the opening of an $11 million grain terminal at the port of Blencoe, Iowa, funded by a farm co-op. The opening of the terminal will… Read More
By Mary Lamie St. Louis Regional Freightway We commend the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) for announcing the first-ever National Freight Strategic Plan (NFSP). We believe… Read More
Jefferson County, Mo., hugs the Mississippi River shoreline south of St. Louis. An important but developing part of the St. Louis region’s “Ag Coast” port ecosystem, it includes… Read More
A federal magistrate ruled September 4 that charges against a “duck boat” captain charged with negligence in a July 19, 2018, storm-related accident on Table Rock Lake that resulted… Read More
