The Nashville Engineer District announced the award of the final contract in the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project on February 13 to C.J. Mahan Construction Company LLC of Urbancrest, Ohio. The… Read More
Tennessee
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) announced May 19 that a public-private partnership has been reached to develop the Ashland City River Port. Ingram Marine Group, the state of Tennessee… Read More
The inland waterways system is “the natural gem of the United States,” but water transportation isn’t in the public eye as much as highway, rail and air transport, said Deb… Read More
The devastating high winds and torrential rainfalls of Hurricane Helene slammed into southeastern states, leaving more than 200 dead in six states reported so far. Helene made landfall September… Read More
The Tennessee and Arkansas departments of transportation have jointly secured $393 million in federal funds to build a new Interstate 55 Bridge over the Mississippi River at Memphis, to be… Read More
Stakeholders of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), which connects the Tennessee River at the shared border of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile, Ala., will gather… Read More
Detectives from the Shelby County (Tenn.) Sheriff’s Office are investigating after a woman’s body was found on a barge in a tow near Memphis, Tenn., after the tow idled for… Read More
Parker Towing’s Nashville Marine Terminal, expected to be open in the first quarter of 2023, will mark the first time in about three years that a new intermodal riverport… Read More
The Mississippi River Commission gave updates on projects along the Mississippi River and heard testimony about local impacts while visiting four locations August 22–26 during its annual low-water… Read More
Earlier this year, Tennessee’s General Assembly celebrated the Jones Act by passing a resolution in its support. The Jones Act, more properly known as the Merchant Marine Act… Read More
