Two Mississippi River ports in Missouri recently acquired 25-foot-long fire and safety rescue boats. Neal Breitweiser, the executive director of the Jefferson County (Mo.) Port Authority, told The Waterways Journal… Read More
Ports & Terminals
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the Port of Muskogee (Okla.) as one of its 14 port grant recipients on December 7. The grant, known as the Better Utilizing Investments… Read More
Infrastructure projects in the state of Texas garnered five of the recently-announced awards from the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) transportation grant program, the successor to the Obama-era… Read More
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced December 6 that the Owensboro (Ky.) Riverport Authority has been awarded $11.2 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development”… Read More
Missouri U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt and Rep. Jason Smith announced on their websites December 6 that the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority (SEMO Port) will receive a $19.8 million grant… Read More
On December 7, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced $1.5 billion in funding for a total of 91 infrastructure projects through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD)… Read More
The Port of Morrow, Ore., which sits on the Columbia River in the town of Boardman, was one of the 14 recipients of port-related grants from the Department of Transportation’s… Read More
The Corps of Engineers’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Work Plan includes an additional $59 million in funding for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP). This funding brings the… Read More
For the first time in 38 years, the Port of Fort Smith has a new building on its property to accommodate additional cargoes on the Arkansas River. The 30,000-square-foot bulk… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded two grants totaling more than half a million dollars to the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission (SEMORPC) in Perryville, Mo., for two… Read More
