On June 14, President Trump issued an executive order that didn’t receive as much media attention as, perhaps, it should have. Titled “Executive Order on Evaluating and Improving the Utility… Read More
Towing Safety Advisory Committee
In a move that inland navigation industry members say “blindsided” them, Coast Guard officials informed them recently that the charter constituting the Towing Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC) was not going… Read More
Washington, D.C.—With the threat of a government shutdown gone, the big question for many focused on where President Donald Trump will get the billions Congress denied him to build the… Read More
Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump once again used his annual State of the Union address to express his eagerness to work with Congress on delivering a major infrastructure investment package, and… Read More
His first day on the job working at Cooper’s Darrow Fleet, Mario Muñoz was scared to death. It was the late 1990s and Muñoz, a college kid and native New… Read More
For nearly 30 years, Turn Services, the New Orleans-based fleeting and shifting company with operations from Baton Rouge, La., to the Gulf and along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, has built… Read More
The past few years have been busy ones for Jo Ann Salyers as towing operators readied for the final implementation of Subchapter M. As the sole proprietor of consulting firm… Read More
Inland Marine Service (IMS), the largest inland marine vessel management company in the United States, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018 as a third-generation, family-owned and -operated business with… Read More
The saying, “To keep respect for laws and sausages, it is best not to see either being made,” was long attributed to German Otto von Bismarck. Ever since, the term… Read More
Capt. Bill Beacom was inducted into the River Rat Hall of Fame in August 2007, but at age 77, he is not slowing down. The veteran captain, waterways industry expert… Read More
