The Louisville Engineer District announced April 11 that Corps natural resources managers and other personnel will be conducting prescribed burns at McAlpine Locks and Dam for the remainder of April. Read More
Author: Waterways Journal
As the important House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee’s Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee held hearings, leaders of ports and the inland navigation industry testified to the crucial importance of fully… Read More
The board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) voted March 28 for the port to execute the purchase of a pair of new 100-foot gauge container… Read More
Under development for two years, the Master Plan for the Port of Memphis was released to the public in February after having been presented in October to a joint meeting… Read More
Nick Nichols, 83, of O’Fallon, Ill., operations manager for the St. Louis Port Authority, died of a heart attack April 9. Nichols retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Read More
The New Madrid (Mo.) County Port Authority, a multimodal port at Mile 885 on the Lower Mississippi River, has announced the receipt of a capital improvement grant from the state… Read More
Earlier this year, Henderson (Ky.) County Riverport, located at Ohio River Mile 808, secured a new grain handling contract with COFCO International Grains US LLC, a China-based agricultural products company,… Read More
Fullen Dock & Warehouse, a full-service river terminal located at Mile 740 on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn., announced March 26 that it has been designated as a Foreign-Trade… Read More
Marine archaeologists working in a flooded ancient port in Egypt have found the first known surviving example of a type of Nile River barge described by a Greek historian 2,469… Read More
Ozinga Materials & Logistics reached a milestone earlier this year when it loaded out its first barge of limestone from a new port it is developing on the Illinois Waterway. Read More
