The Corps of Engineers’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Work Plan includes an additional $59 million in funding for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP). This funding brings the… Read More
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Tim Thomas, vice president of Eagle Marine Industries, St. Louis, died November 27. A resident of Collinsville, Ill., he was 64. After receiving his MBA from Washington University, he went… Read More
The Port of Savannah moved more container cargo in October than any other month in its history, with 413,800 twenty-foot-equivalent container units (TEU) crossing its docks, the port announced November… Read More
The last tow of the 2018 navigation season departed St. Paul, Minn., November 25, according to the St. Paul Engineer District. The departure of the mv. Thomas E. Erickson signified… Read More
Last week, the National Waterways Foundation released a long-awaited report titled “How Project Selection In the Corps of Engineers Is Affected By Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR) Analysis.” It’s dense and weedy,… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded two grants totaling more than half a million dollars to the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission (SEMORPC) in Perryville, Mo., for two… Read More
In the river industry scramble to attain the certificates of inspection (COIs) necessary to comply with the recently enforced Subchapter M requirements, one company has racked up a number of… Read More
The Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI) group said that the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA), released in November, affirms its warning to take overt actions to protect the… Read More
Note: the following letter was sent to U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and shared with The Waterways Journal. The Olmsted Locks and Dam between Paducah, Ky., and Cairo, Ill.,… Read More
Capt. Larry Starker, 79, of Aurora, Ind., died October 17. He started his long river career on the Aurora ferry in 1957. The next year, he joined The Ohio River… Read More
