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
New Orleans
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
The Mississippi River Commission (MRC) concluded its yearly high-water inspection trip in the Big Easy March 31, with the mv. Mississippi docking at the New Orleans Engineer District’s headquarters in… Read More
The tradition of Rex, the King of Carnival, making a grand and dramatic arrival to New Orleans, his “Winter Capital,” the day before Mardi Gras dates back to 1874, just… Read More
PT-305, a “patrol torpedo” built by Higgins Industries in New Orleans that served in the European theater of World War II from 1944 to the end of the war, has… Read More
The recently reconstituted Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) held its 96th meeting April 20 in New Orleans, and learned, among other things, that completion of the Kentucky Lock Project is… Read More
After a hiatus in 2021 due to COVID-19, the Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council (MVTTC) is set to hold its annual conference again in 2022, this time marking the… Read More
