Whiskey aged in a floating rickhouse on the Mississippi River and with a towboat prominently featured on its label has hit the shelves, with a bourbon to follow later this… Read More
Archive: 2021
Gnots Reserve Inc., a St. Rose, La.-based provider of fleeting and towing services on the Lower Mississippi River, has put a new towboat into service: the mv. Burrwood Wise. The… Read More
After a tense couple of weeks due to President Donald Trump’s threats to veto the $2.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (H.R. 133), an omnibus appropriations bill that included… Read More
Washington, D.C.—Democrats completed a political trifecta by winning two Senate runoff elections in Georgia and taking control of both chambers in the new Congress, along with the White House later… Read More
Happy New Year! We begin the Old Boat Column for 2021 with a steamboat that took its name from the star of Bethlehem. The Guiding Star, a wood-hulled sidewheeler that… Read More
Liebherr-Wek Nenzing GmbH debuted three new machines and one new design recently for the deep foundation, material handling and lifting fields. All the models include a brand-new design combining the… Read More
Waukegan Harbor Dredging, Waukegan, IL – USACE Chicago District Project. To Luedtke Engineering Company for $1885400, line items 1AA to 1AF, 2AA to 2AF, 4AA to 4LL, on September 24,… Read More
Topeka, Kan.-based Custom Dredge Works (CDW) has delivered a new 14-inch cutter suction dredge to Legacy Materials of Booneville, Iowa, near West Des Moines. The new dredge will be used… Read More
After many years of planning and delays due to high water, and many other issues, work has finally begun on a new excursion boat landing in Kimmswick, Mo. Ground has… Read More
Towboat Poem As I’m on this boat, looking out of the window I think about my life, and how far I will go Will I ever be a captain? Or… Read More
