Since 2018, St. Louis Regional Freightway has collaborated with the Inland Marine Expo (IMX) to bring hundreds of inland waterway experts and industry leaders to the St. Louis, Mo., region. Read More
Archive: May 2021
The Gulf Coast Inland Waterways Joint Hurricane Team (JHT), made up of leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, National Weather Service and commercial maritime operators,… Read More
S&B Infrastructure Ltd. announced May 3 it has acquired Technology Associates Inc. (TAI), a marine engineering and naval architecture firm based in New Orleans. TAI will continue its operations as… Read More
Daytime temperatures in south Louisiana are inching up toward typical summertime highs, and so too are water levels on the Lower Mississippi River and connected waterways. As of May 13,… Read More
Capt. Travis Jeremy Porche, 35, a former captain for Genesis Marine, died January 25 after a brief hospitalization. He started working at age 18 as a deckhand with Horizon Maritime,… Read More
When Frank Pierson purchased the steamer Mississippi (then a tourist attraction moored opposite Hannibal, Mo.) in early 1966 and brought it to St. Louis to replace his sunken Becky Thatcher,… Read More
Despite continued outbreaks of COVID-19 in India and a few other hot spots, and the spread of a South African variant, most of the world’s economies expect a summer recovery… Read More
Very dry conditions in April resulted in much lower runoff in the upper Missouri River Basin and could lead to navigation restrictions in the second half of the year, the… Read More
The Coast Guard has reopened the Lower Mississippi River in the vicinity of the fractured Hernando de Soto Bridge in Memphis, Tenn., allowing a queue of vessels and barges to move beneath the bridge. As of… Read More
In a ruling closely watched by maritime interests, the full, 17-member United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit narrowed the tests for a determination of who counts as… Read More
