The tows of two towboats, one heading northbound and the other southbound on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans, La., collided February 13 and led to a breakaway, a… Read More
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On the afternoon of February 8, the Coast Guard received an alert that a towing vessel was sinking at Mile 259 on the Ohio River near Cheshire, Ohio. The mv. Read More
As we’ve recently passed the one-year anniversary of my father’s death and the first year of all of the things we’ve had to celebrate without him, I’m trying to wrap… Read More
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority announced February 3 that it has elected Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky as its chairman for 2019. In a press release, the authority said, “Gov. Read More
Washington, D.C.—Maritime programs will receive millions of dollars in new funding under a $333-billion compromise reached by House and Senate conferees to avoid another shutdown for about 25 percent of… Read More
Kelly Phillips, the now-famous captain of the houseboat “Shameless” who began his Mississippi River odyssey in March 2017 in Prairie du Chien, Wis., after being given just three months to… Read More
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced February 11 they have filed a lawsuit against the federal government of the United States over what… Read More
There have been steamboats and towboats named for presidents of the United States. Toward the end of the steam and paddlewheel era, there was a Mississippi River train ferry named,… Read More
One of the former owners of Higman Barge Lines is “testing the waters” with regard to the demand for new towboats in today’s market, tapping some of his previous associates… Read More
A recently released report by a senior National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist shows in more detail the increase in rainfall and flood events in the Mississippi River basin in recent… Read More
