The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced its 2019–2020 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements during an event held at the National Press Club on February 4. It calls… Read More
Author: Waterways Journal
The Corps of Engineers announced February 1 in the Federal Register that a 60-day comment period for the submission of information on conceptual Public-Private Partnership (P3) delivery of specific Corps… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District’s Water Management Section said it is overseeing water releases at its dams in the Cumberland River Basin in the wake of a “significant rain event” February… Read More
The Corps of Engineers announced February 7 that all 2018 stored flood waters were evacuated from the Missouri River mainstem reservoir system as of January 29. The full 16.3 million… Read More
By Jefferson R. Tillery and Sara B. Kuebel, Jones Walker LLC Due to a circuit split between the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Court of… Read More
For the fifth year in a row, the Port of New Orleans topped 1 million cruise passenger movements in 2018, according to end-of-the-year statistics the port released last week. With… Read More
In the first two years of his term, President Donald Trump generated a lot of discussion about infrastructure. Many in the inland maritime community were encouraged when he highlighted waterways… Read More
All marine operators dread the prospect of expensive litigation that follows when a company is sued. Whether it involves property damage or personal injury, lawsuits are expensive, time consuming, and… Read More
I read the story of Mr. Phillips, and his journey down the Mississippi River, and his overcoming many hardships that life had dealt him. I enjoyed the narrative, since I too… Read More
Kevin Jennings, 62, owner of West Point Marine Inc., a harbor service with fleets in Hardin and Batchtown, Ill., died unexpectedly January 9 of natural causes at his residence in… Read More
