A federal agency responsible for keeping infrastructure and cyber facilities secure has issued a list including maritime workers among those “essential critical infrastructure workers” during COVID-19 response. The agency is… 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.
By Jeanne Amy and Maggie Spell Jones Walker LLP In this unsettling time of the ever-evolving coronavirus pandemic and social distancing, unique challenges face the marine industry for crew members… Read More
The spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in China is not having an effect on Kentucky’s exports of Asian carp, but it is preventing Chinese investors from visiting a fisheries… Read More
The entire world is in total panic! People are getting sick, some even dying, of what feels like a foreign invasion. Oil prices are dangerously low (not a good thing… Read More
In little more than a week, COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has brought much of daily life in the United States to a halt as communities and… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District has announced a necessary 30- to 60-day closure of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) Lock in New Orleans for emergency repairs to the 97-year-old… Read More
As the halfway point of the four-year Subchapter M phase-in period for certificates of inspection approaches, the U.S. Coast Guard is ramping up enforcement efforts, and others are planning for… Read More
Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump referred to himself as a “wartime president” as he pushed his administration and Congress for bold actions to help Americans cope with the COVID-19 virus, including… Read More
Missouri River management practices are the focus of a new bill in Congress, as well as of a lawsuit whose latest phase will take place in June. Missouri Sen. Roy… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a Marine Accident Brief February 26 detailing the agency’s investigation into the March 10, 2019, allision of the mv. Rivers Wilson and the… Read More
