In December 2022, The Waterways Journal covered The Water Institute’s crowdsourced bathymetry (CSB) and modeling efforts under its SmartPort project—an effort to provide both near real-time and forecast channel conditions. Read More
SmartPort
In the summer of 2020, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, economic developers and leaders from the state’s maritime industry gathered on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Baton… Read More
Eleven months after Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards first touted the launch of the state’s “SmartPort” initiative for the Lower Mississippi River, Edwards announced June 9 that SmartPort will receive… Read More