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What’s Next For Subchapter M Compliance?

March 20, 2020

As the halfway point of the four-year Subchapter M phase-in period for certificates of inspection approaches, the U.S. Coast Guard is ramping up enforcement efforts, and others are planning for… Read More

Family-Owned JAGCO Prides Itself On Quality, Service Jesse Ladd works on building an expansion joint inside JAGCO Industries on Old U.S. 45, south of Paducah. The small, family-owned company builds several products for the inland marine and other industries. (Photo by Shelley Byrne)

Jesse Ladd works on building an expansion joint inside JAGCO Industries on Old U.S. 45, south of Paducah. The small, family-owned company builds several products for the inland marine and other industries. (Photo by Shelley Byrne)

Family-Owned JAGCO Prides Itself On Quality, Service

February 24, 2020

In a time where a lot of parts for U.S. products are made in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan, a five-person western Kentucky business is making marine, industrial and automotive… Read More

Dee Dee Whittaker Joins WJ Team In Paducah

February 24, 2020

Dee Dee Whittaker brings to her new assignment handling Waterways Journal advertising accounts in the Southeast region a formidable background in sales. A Paducah native, Whittaker worked in Atlanta and… Read More

Nine Projects Receive Marine Highway Grants A crane lifts a container into a barge at the Paducah Riverport. A recent marine highways grant the port received is for the purchase or lease of equipment as an initial step toward beginning regularly scheduled container on barge service between Paducah and Baton Rouge, La. (Photo courtesy of Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority)

A crane lifts a container into a barge at the Paducah Riverport. A recent marine highways grant the port received is for the purchase or lease of equipment as an initial step toward beginning regularly scheduled container on barge service between Paducah and Baton Rouge, La. (Photo courtesy of Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority)

Nine Projects Receive Marine Highway Grants

January 10, 2020

New Paducah–Baton Rouge Project To Receive $480,000 Grant money from the Maritime Administration’s America’s Marine Highway Program will help fund more than $7.5 million for nine projects, including one between… Read More

Grants Point Toward Container-On-Barge Future WJ Editorial

Grants Point Toward Container-On-Barge Future

January 10, 2020

Container-on-barge will happen; but when? Versions of that sentiment have been circulating among the inland navigation community for decades. Various COB experiments on the inland waterways have come and gone,… Read More

Nautical Handrail System Designed For Safety Dan Walsh of G&C Multi-Services quickly assembles the positioner on the AOI handrail system. (Photo by Clint Conway/G&C Multi-Services)

Dan Walsh of G&C Multi-Services quickly assembles the positioner on the AOI handrail system. (Photo by Clint Conway/G&C Multi-Services)

Nautical Handrail System Designed For Safety

November 19, 2019

G&C Multi-Services of Paduach, Ky., is marketing a nautical handrail system with one goal: to aid safety on the river. The company recently announced the patent-protected system, which doesn’t yet… Read More

WJ Opens New Office In Paducah, Ky.

November 8, 2019

The Waterways Journal has opened a new office in Paducah, Ky. The company is leasing space from the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) at 129 Water St. The location is ideal… Read More

River Veteran Expands River Delivery Service Larry Barnes’ son, John, waves from the deck of the smaller of the two vessels Barnes Marine uses to deliver supplies to towboats on the Ohio, Lower Cumberland, Lower Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. (Photo by Capt. Larry Barnes)

Larry Barnes’ son, John, waves from the deck of the smaller of the two vessels Barnes Marine uses to deliver supplies to towboats on the Ohio, Lower Cumberland, Lower Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. (Photo by Capt. Larry Barnes)

River Veteran Expands River Delivery Service

October 11, 2019

After serving 30 years on the inland rivers, Capt. Larry Barnes had a sharp eye for opportunities on the water. Five years ago, after retiring as a captain, he opened… Read More

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Western Rivers Opens New Fleet At Old River

September 19, 2019

Western Rivers Boat Management, Paducah, Ky., recently unveiled a new fleeting area on the Lower Mississippi River, the company said in an announcement September 19. “We are excited to announce… Read More

Hines Buys And Renames Three Towboats The mv. Tim P. Studdert was formerly the Robert D. Byrd of American Commercial Barge Line.

Hines Buys And Renames Three Towboats

September 13, 2019

Hines Furlong Line Inc., the expansion-minded operator/charterer of boats and barges, recently acquired three towboats and has others under construction. The boats that it bought are the mvs. Mountain State,… Read More