The Waterways Journal is pleased to announce the completion of its second Mississippi River System Barge Fleet Survey. With this year’s edition, we have closed the gap in information left… Read More
Boats & Barges
The latest inland marine industry news involving new-construction and refurbished towboats, passenger vessels, ferries, dredges and other inland river boats. Towboat christenings and recent innovations in towboat design are also featured.
Cruise-goers in the Big Easy are partying like it’s pre-COVID, with the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) setting a monthly oceangoing and river cruise passenger record in March with… Read More
The Mobile Engineer District, along with officials from the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, christened the new survey vessel Miss Agnes April 28 in Columbus, Miss. The 28-foot Miss Agnes is… Read More
Friends and coworkers from the Louisville Engineer District remembered Jackie Lee Anderson on April 27 with the christening of a vessel named in his memory. The 2,000 hp. Z-drive mv. Read More
Eymard Marine Construction & Repair Inc., a busy shipyard on the Harvey Canal near New Orleans, recently completed a 78-foot towboat for Lydia Ann Channel Fleet, a Rockport, Texas-based provider… Read More
American Cruise Lines is offering the longest-ever domestic cruise itinerary, visiting 20 states in 60 days beginning in August 2024. The Great United States cruise spans all four U.S. time… Read More
The St. Louis Regional Freightway, a public agency founded in 2014 as an enterprise of Bi-State Development, announced April 1 that it is inviting students and educators to sign up… Read More
The locks at McAlpine Locks and Dam reopened the evening of March 28, roughly 17 hours after barges broke loose from a vessel and became pinned against the dam at… Read More
Steve Alley’s story of how he got his start in the maritime industry might sound unusual today, but not so 40 years ago. “I answered a blind ad in the… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group hosted the keel authentication ceremony for a new 302-foot auto and passenger ferry March 9 at its Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla. The ferry, ESG Hull… Read More
