As harvest season proceeds with dry conditions continuing throughout the Mississippi River basin and no significant rain in the forecast, agricultural interests are expressing concern about low water and rising… 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.
The auxiliary chamber at Meldahl Locks and Dam, Ohio River Mile 436.2, is expected to remain closed into next year to allow repairs to miter gates. Domenico Chianesi, navigation operations… Read More
The Pittsburgh Engineer District announced September 5 that it has awarded a nearly $30 million contract to the Joseph B. Fay Company of Pittsburgh to remove the Monongahela River Locks… Read More
More than 200 people from 22 states attended the OKI Conference on Freight September 5-7 in Cincinnati, Ohio, making it one of the major national freight conferences of the year. Read More
Cement Maker Buzzi Unicem, which operates river cement terminals, is contesting citations and fines issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) over a February barge fatality. The agency… Read More
Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group has received the formal notice to proceed from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to design and construct a new medium-class hopper dredge… Read More
Friends remembered river historian and writer Keith Norrington following his passing on August 30. Norrington, 69, of New Albany, Ind., served as director and curator of the Howard Steamboat Museum… Read More
Lashed together with steel cables, bundles of trees dangled from a helicopter over the upper Ohio River, ready to become fish habitats. Twenty-nine tree bundles, removed in March from the… Read More
Construction of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project could be delayed if a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) isn’t signed between the Corps of Engineers and the state of Illinois by September… Read More
Washington, D.C.—The Biden administration announced a final rule to conform its contentious Waters of the United States (WOTUS) definition to a divided Supreme Court ruling that did not go its… Read More
