The Rock Island Engineer District christened the mv. Quincy at the Clat Adams Bicentennial Park in Quincy, Ill., April 30. Several hundred members of the public attended the ceremony, according… Read More
Archive: May 2021
When the mv. Rivers Wilson arrived at Master Marine in Bayou La Batre, Ala., in August of last year, the towboat already had a long history to its name, or… Read More
Sometime very soon—if it hasn’t happened already—the United States will reach a point at which the supply of vaccines for COVID-19 will outrun demand. Hundreds of millions of vaccine doses… Read More
In April, Encore Dredging Partners (EDP), a specialty dredging and marine infrastructure services company, and its backing company, AV Capital, announced the acquisition of RLB Contracting’s dredging division assets. In… Read More
Morgan City, La.-based Conrad Shipyard held a keel-laying ceremony April 16 for the 6,500-cubic-yard trailing suction hopper dredge the company is building for Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD)… Read More
Property owners along the Ohio River near Olmsted, Ill., and the Corps of Engineers both agree riverbank erosion is occurring, but they disagree as to its cause. Sandra Thornton, an… Read More
Merrill Marine Services, a well-known marine brokerage, appraising and surveying firm with offices in St. Louis and Paducah, has announced that James H. “Jim” Garrett has been appointed to manage… Read More
Developers of a port under development in Cairo, Ill., signed a project labor agreement April 27 with the Illinois AFL-CIO guaranteeing at least 500 union jobs in building it. The… Read More
Tyler Kelley’s book Holding Back the River, to be officially published May 4, belongs in the fine tradition of nonfiction works like Rising Tide, John Barry’s award-winning account of the… Read More
Tri Coastal Trading, a scrap metal processor formerly headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., announced April 16 that it will open its first fully owned ferrous scrap processing and barge-loading facility in… Read More
