A group of 12 Korean trade officials—11 of them grain buyers—recently spent a whirlwind week from April 21 through 27 touring trading facilities, farms, ports, dams and terminals in the… Read More
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Recent inland waterways industry news, covering the Mississippi River, Ohio River, Missouri River, Tennessee River, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and more. Articles on economic, environmental and logistic advantages of barge shipping, plus other stories pertaining to locks and dams and other waterway infrastructure.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) reported sharply higher net income for the first quarter of 2024 compared to a year earlier. GLDD announced May 7 that its first… Read More
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine visited the park at the site of the former Ohio River Lock and Dam 27 on May 6 to announce the list of 19 communities that… Read More
Spring precipitation brought much-needed moisture to the Missouri River Basin, boosting the Corps of Engineers’ forecast for total 2024 runoff. “While the calendar year forecast remains below average, the runoff… Read More
On May 14, a delegation of transportation and logistics counselors from embassies around the world (Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the European Union office) visited Memphis,… Read More
Earlier this year, residents and mariners who live and work along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) between New Orleans and Port Arthur, Texas, might’ve caught a glimpse of a rare… Read More
Work to raise a sunken barge continued May 15, nearly a week after a tow struck the Fort Madison, Iowa, bridge over the Mississippi River on May 9. The mv. Read More
Campbell Transportation Company has retrieved the final two barges that had lodged against Emsworth Locks and Dam following a 26-barge breakaway in the Pittsburgh area. One barge remains pinned against… Read More
On the morning of May 15, a barge struck the Pelican Island Causeway Bridge to Pelican Island near Galveston, Texas, partially collapsing a rail trestle that ran alongside the road… Read More
Washington, D.C.—On May 10, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Work Plan for the civil works program. “The FY 2024 Work Plan… Read More
