Marquette Transportation Company will expand its Paducah, Ky., facility, with more than $5 million in investment, creating up to 55 jobs, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s office announced February 27. Read More
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We Work The Waterways (WWTW) plans to debut a new pilot program April 18 in Paducah, Ky., and later in Louisiana. The program, which has been under the umbrella of… 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 24th annual River Bell Awards Luncheon on December 5 broke records for both attendance and fundraising. Read More
The Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) will honor Robert M. Blocker, senior vice president-dry cargo division at American Commercial Barge Line, with its River Bell Award during its 24th River Bell… Read More
James Garrett will serve as the next director of the Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority. The riverport announced Garrett’s hiring November 14. He begins work December 2. Garrett succeeds Tim Cahill,… Read More
Bob Day Friends remembered Robert “Bob” Day as hard-working and down-to-earth with a passion for golf and a devotion for bettering the lives of those in the river industry. Day,… Read More
The Howards of Jeffersonville, Ind., were known for the beautiful wooden packets they started building in 1834. By the turn of the century, they had created some of the… Read More
The mv. Marquette Legends. Marquette Transportation engraves the names of each of its legends on a brass plaque beneath the vessel’s bell. (Photo courtesy of Marquette Transportation) The 10… Read More
The third annual Marine Compliance Alliance workshop August 6-8 drew a record crowd of about 120 people, who learned about drydock availability, Subchapter M compliance, marine casualties and proposed drug-testing… Read More
