The 10 mariners recognized as Marquette Legends account for more than 260 years of combined service at Marquette Transportation Company. Collectively, the Marquette Legends serve as the company’s hall of… Read More
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In the July 29 issue of The Waterways Journal, this column detailed the Ductillite, which was the first of a series of three towboats of a radical new design that… Read More
Washington, D.C.—Newly promoted Lt. Gen. William H. “Butch” Graham Jr. assumed command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, becoming the Army’s 56th Chief of Engineers. Graham assumed command from… Read More
Seldom has a single date loomed with more menace to commerce than September 30. By chance or coincidence, it contains a triple deadline. That’s the deadline for Congress to pass… Read More
The National Rivers Hall of Fame, located at the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa, has opened voting for its next class of honorees. Nominees this year… Read More
Marc Mavigliano wants to connect high school students to jobs in the inland waterways industry. Mavigliano, the McCracken County (Ky.) Public Schools community schools director, was the guest speaker for… Read More
Aging infrastructure will be a prime topic of the Tennessee River Valley Association Conference September 30-October 1 in Franklin, Tenn. TRVA executive director Cline Jones said issues at Holt and… Read More
For the third year in a row, the New Orleans Engineer District is overseeing construction of an underwater sill across the bed of the Mississippi River Ship Channel. The sill… Read More
Capt. Gary “Phillip” Langley has quite a family legacy in the maritime industry. Born in Hattiesburg, Miss., and raised in Bassfield, Miss., Langley grew up around towboats, with his father,… Read More
Chad McBride, a fifth-generation mariner with 30 years of experience at his family’s towboat company, graduated this spring from Texas A&M University’s virtual maritime program in Galveston, Texas, with his… Read More