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The Jan De Nul Group has contracted with Singapore-based PaxOcean Shipyard to convert three recently purchased offshore supply vessels into Water Injection Dredges (WIDs). The first one to be delivered… Read More

United States Steel Corporation announced May 2 that it will invest more than $1 billion to construct a new sustainable endless casting and rolling facility at its Edgar Thomson Plant… Read More

The St. Paul Engineer District is delaying plans to dispose of three Mississippi River locks and dams near the Twin Cities. For a year, the Corps had been considering the… Read More

The St. Paul Engineer District announced April 15 that it is revising its Upper Mississippi River Master Plan and is seeking the public’s input. The master plan is a guiding… Read More

Kirby Corporation announced net earnings for the first quarter of $44.3 million, or 74 cents per share, compared with earnings of $32.5 million, or 54 cents per share, for the 2018 first quarter. Excluding certain one-time charges,… Read More

With water from the springtime snowmelt and weather systems upriver heading downstream, gages along the Lower Mississippi River have started creeping up again, continuing an unusually long high water season… Read More

The recently passed Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate federal standards of performance for marine pollution control devices and best management practices, and… Read More

Bruce Oakley Inc., a North Little Rock, Ark.-based transporter and distributor of bulk commodities, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Lange-Stegmann Company, it was announced April 26. Founded… Read More

M/G Transport Services, a division of Auxo Marine Holdings, announced May 2 that John Binion has been appointed CEO, succeeding Jack Lordo. Binion has served as a lead director of… Read More