Ingram Barge Company applied at the end of June for a permit to build and maintain a barge mooring/fleeting facility on the right bank of the Ohio River near… Read More
Ohio River
A public meeting was held July 11 in Brookport, Ill., to inform the community about the blasting plan for the upcoming demolition work at Lock and Dam 52 on the… Read More
The last remaining ferry on the Ohio River between West Virginia and Ohio will not run this year, but its governing board hopes it can return in 2020. Read More
NLS Asphalt, a division of National Lime & Stone Company, is proposing to expand a mooring area of an existing barge unloading area, the Empire Plant, it operates… Read More
Tidewater Rail Operating LLC, Fort Worth, Texas, has applied to the Pittsburgh Engineer District for a permit to expand a docking facility on the right bank of the… Read More
The Owensboro (Ky.) Riverport Authority recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to expand the entry point leading to the port. Currently two lanes, the… Read More
The Louisville Engineer District announced April 11 that Corps natural resources managers and other personnel will be conducting prescribed burns at McAlpine Locks and Dam for the remainder of… Read More
Nucor Corporation announced March 27 that it will build a new state of the art steel plate mill in Brandenburg, Ky., along the Ohio River southwest of Louisville. Read More
An already-soaked middle and southern U.S. will soon be getting another surge of water from snowmelt from the “bomb cyclone” that pummeled part of the Upper Plains with “historic”… Read More
The barge industry is getting socked by closed locks and consequent delays on the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Members of the Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) were briefed… Read More
