Kirby Inland Marine (Kirby) christened the mv. Green Diamond, said to be the nation’s first hybrid-electric towboat, on August 25, 2023, in a festive ceremony at the company’s Old River… Read More
New Orleans
Forty-eight years ago, Royce Wilken, after graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in agricultural business, went to work for Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). Over his first 19… Read More
Marine Compliance Alliance will hold its third annual workshop August 6-8 at the Carson Center in Paducah, Ky. The workshop is geared toward inland marine compliance professionals and rotates each… Read More
A group of Louisiana religious and maritime leaders have announced a first-of-its-kind blessing August 14-15 of the fleet of commercial vessels that work along the Lower Mississippi River. The two-day… Read More
Cooper Marine, a deep-draft and inland bulk stevedore, barge line and barge fleeting operator across the southeastern United States, has added a 4,200 hp. towing vessel to its fleet, which… Read More
The Dravo Contracting Company was justifiably proud of the towboat Wm. Penn that the company had built for the Dravo subsidiary Union Barge Line (UBL) in 1940. In the September… Read More
By Ken Kolb When the container ship Dali crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, the entire country was reminded of the importance of maintaining safe and secure… Read More
While the U.S. Coast Guard has a global mission, operating in all corners of the United States and around the world, the agency’s individual units nevertheless take on some of… Read More
Members of Waterways Council Inc. (WCI) and maritime industry stakeholders gathered at the Four Seasons in New Orleans November 13-15 for WCI’s annual Waterways Symposium. This year’s symposium, while focusing… Read More
About 6 p.m. on July 4, a towing vessel pushing a loaded barge entered Algiers Lock in New Orleans from the Mississippi River, bound for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW),… Read More
