Archive: 2021

In an unusual year with historic challenges, Port Milwaukee (Wis.) finished 2020 with its highest annual cargo volume in the past seven years. Overall tonnage for the municipal port and… Read More

The historical society that maintains a tiny building housing a museum commemorating the deadliest maritime disaster in the history of the United States is trying to raise money for an… Read More

Helena Harbor and Phillips County (Ark.) Economic Development officials recently announced that the harbor has been named a “designated project” on the U.S. Marine Highway System by the U.S. Department… Read More

Buckeye Partners L.P. announced December 30 that crude oil export operations have commenced at the second deepwater dock at South Texas Gateway (STG), a new state-of-the-art terminal constructed at the… Read More

Retired Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, former  commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has joined WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as president of… Read More

Lea Brent, of Brent Towing Company fame, died January 10 in his hometown of Greenville, Miss. He was 88. He, along with his father, Jesse (deceased), and brother, Howard (retired),… Read More

Hugh Earl Cooper, 91, of McKinney, Texas, a longtime operations executive at Canal Barge Company, died on December 30, 2020. Raised in Hugo, Okla., Cooper enrolled early in the Army… Read More

The Port of Huntington Tri-State is the nation’s busiest inland port by freight volume, according to a recently released freight analysis for 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Waterborne… Read More

The clock is ticking for small shipyards hoping to receive funding from a popular Department of Transportation Maritime Administration grant program. Applications for the 2021 installment of the Small Shipyard… Read More