Washington, D.C.–A still-paralyzed House entered its third week without a speaker as Republicans twice put forward nominees who did not end up with the gavel. After House Majority Leader Steve… 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.
Tows are waiting an average of 13 to 15 hours to begin locking through Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River, more than two years after remnants of a hurricane sank… Read More
Michael Breslin is the director of safety and sustainability at The American Waterways Operators (AWO). Before joining AWO in 2021, he spent nearly 13 years at Turn Services, a New… Read More
The 57th annual Tennessee River Valley Association and Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council meeting October 9-10 in Franklin, Tenn., included an update on projects along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers as well… Read More
A group of offshore wind developers is sounding the alarm over what they say is underinvestment in ports that service wind farms. They say they can’t meet the Biden administration’s… Read More
Germany-based international logistics firm Rhenus presented the Ernst Kramer, a 50-year-old vessel the group converted to be fully remote-controlled, at the German National Maritime Conference on September 14-15. Rhenus launched… Read More
Scott Bridge Company is in the midst of 15 days of daytime repairs at 14 Mile Bridge on the Mobile River, which connects the Tennessee-Tombigbee and Black Warrior-Tombigbee waterways to… Read More
The lockmaster at Lindy C. Boggs Lock and Dam, also known as Lock 1, on the Red River near Marksville, La., discovered a crack in the miter gate anchorage on… Read More
Washington, D.C.—House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana narrowly won the Republican conference’s nomination for speaker but remained short of the 217 votes needed ultimately to win the gavel. That… Read More
When the New Orleans Engineer District updated its salt water wedge tracker October 9, the leading edge—or toe—of the wedge intruding from the Gulf of Mexico had retreated back downriver… Read More
