Tanco Terminals will be expanding its liquid barge facility at Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville to meet rising demand for blended fertilizers in southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. The $750,000 expansion… Read More
Ohio River
The America’s River Roots Festival is over, vanished into the last rollers of wheelwash behind the participating vessels as each departed for their respective home ports. Nine excursion vessels… Read More
It’s been an exciting year for Living Lands & Waters (LL&W). The organization has spent the year hosting and participating in cleanups all over the country, and morale is high. Read More
The first Tall Stacks event was held at Cincinnati in 1988. The idea grew out of a bicentennial commission to plan how to celebrate two centuries since the… Read More
The River Discovery Center in Paducah, Ky., is the first museum in the state to host a traveling exhibit based on a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of… Read More
The America’s River Roots Festival will be held in the Cincinnati area October 8–12. The event will be somewhat like the Tall Stacks events from the past, but this particular… Read More
Lindsey Launius credits her two young sons for getting her excited about the River Discovery Center, where she is the new executive director. Lincoln, 9, and Wrigley, 8, took a… Read More
Construction on a new main lock chamber over the footprint of the existing auxiliary chamber at Montgomery Locks and Dam is designed to reduce lock transit delays and increase… Read More
Like the towboats moving along the nation’s rivers, American Cruise Lines (ACL) vessels are American owned, built and crewed. Cassandra Caldwell, ACL’s government affairs manager for the Mississippi River and… Read More
A coalition of powerful interests is lining up to oppose a proposed merger between two of the nation’s largest Class 1 railroads, Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS). Opponents… Read More
