The Central Ohio River Business Association (CORBA) held its first general meeting of 2025 on February 13 in Newport, Ky., on the Ohio River in BB Riverboat’s dockside conference facility. Read More
Ohio River
While unregulated streams and rivers caused flash flooding in the Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio valleys in recent days, close coordination between the Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority… Read More
Crews are about one-third of the way through placing concrete for the enormous monoliths at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project at Tennessee River Mile 22.4. Jeremiah Manning, Kentucky Lock resident… Read More
Superior Ag expects to unload 30 to 35 barges a year as part of a plan to create a dry fertilizer terminal on the Ohio River near Rockport, Ind. The… Read More
In the last column, we began looking at a letter written by noted historian and author Capt. Frederick Way Jr. to M.C. Dupree, marine superintendent of Ashland Oil & Refining… Read More
One of America’s newest waterways, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), turned 40 last month. Four decades ago, on January 14, 1985, the mv. Eddie Waxler departed Mobile, Ala., and headed up… Read More
A blanket of freezing, sub-zero temperatures and ice has descended on much of the central United States, all the way down to the Lower Mississippi River and Gulf Coast, where… Read More
Susan Olson, an aerospace engineer with a deep interest in the river industry, offers mariners a new tool for better understanding the trends and data relevant to the maritime world. Read More
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear touted western Kentucky’s economic wins, including those related to the river industry, as the keynote speaker for the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Public Policy… Read More
The Corps of Engineers has offered a ballpark cost estimate of $10 million to cover the repair of Wilson Lock and Dam, located at Tennessee River Mile 259.4 in Florence,… Read More
