Ozinga, headquartered in Mokena, Ill., has received the 2019 Dean’s Award from the Illinois Family Business of the Year Awards. The award recognizes a business that excels in social enterprise,… Read More
News
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.
Shell Chemicals LP of Baton Rouge, La., has applied to the New Orleans Engineer District for a permit to build a facility for manufacturing monoethylene glycol on the left bank… Read More
Members of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) and stakeholders who operate on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway gathered in New Orleans, La., August 7–9 for the 114th annual GICA Seminar. Read More
In July, the Environmental Protection Agency released its fourth report on the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) program. Originally authorized in 2005 and reauthorized with unanimous bipartisan support in 2010,… Read More
The Rolls-Royce Power Systems business unit, with its core brand MTU, will present itself more clearly in the future as an integral part of the British Rolls-Royce engineering group, the… Read More
After an extensive consultative process with the inland waterways industry, the Coast Guard is proposing to amend the requirements regulating personnel permitted to serve as a person in charge (PIC)… Read More
Washington, D.C.—The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) marked a “big win” when port equipment was dropped from the list of products targeted for tariffs in the trade war between… Read More
A dredging emergency in the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers led river industry representatives to appeal to members of Congress to urge the Corps to better distribute already-allocated emergency dredging… Read More
Papers filed in federal court by lawyers for Bruce Oakley Inc. and Johnston’s Port 33 shed more light on the chain of events that led to two barges traveling down… Read More
Mayors from cities and towns along the Mississippi River joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a press conference in St. Louis, Mo., to unveil a newly assembled disaster prediction… Read More
