The New Orleans Engineer District will host a pair of pre-scoping open houses this month to gather public input for its “Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Feasibility Study.” The meetings are set… 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.
The St. Paul Engineer District will begin its annual Lake Pepin ice measurements on February 15. Regarded as a harbinger that spring is on the way, the district’s ice measurements… Read More
The International Propeller Club’s Port of Paducah (Ky.) has taken the lead in seeking a resolution from the Kentucky legislature to support the Jones Act. House Concurrent Resolution 5 was… Read More
Specialty marine contractor J.F. Brennan Company Inc. is growing with the recent acquisition of the dredging and dewatering division of Infrastructure Alternatives Inc. (IAI). The purchase brings dewatering, water treatment… Read More
The 2022 Water Resources Development Act, signed into law in late December by President Joe Biden, includes authorization for several new projects for the Pittsburgh Engineer District. The nearly 400-page… Read More
The Republican Governors Association, representing the governors of 25 states, including most farm states, sent a letter to the White House January 30 urging the Biden administration to delay its… Read More
The Red River Valley Association (RRVA) will hold its annual navigation meeting and convention February 22–23 in Shreveport, La., at the Sam’s Town Hotel & Convention Center. Day one will… Read More
With many people focused in past months on the historic low-water conditions along the Lower Mississippi River, the west Kentucky chapter of Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs) held an educational… Read More
Scheduled maintenance and repair work at Lock 24, at Mississippi River Mile 273.4, near Clarksville, Mo., has been underway since the lock dewatering was completed January 23. Upper bulkheads were… Read More
Kirby Corporation announced net earnings for the fourth quarter of $37.3 million or $0.62 per share, compared with earnings of $11.0 million, or $0.18 per share for the 2021 fourth… Read More
