The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a Marine Accident Brief June 22 detailing the September 19, 2019, barge breakaway at San Jacinto River Fleet in Channelview, Texas, and the… Read More
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What many have feared for months is unfolding on the Lower Mississippi River, with Tropical Storm Barry approaching South Louisiana while the river is at flood stage. As of the… Read More
The 74th annual meeting of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA) may go down as one of the most celebratory, thanks to the May 16 reopening of Demopolis Lock in rural,… Read More
The recently concluded 40th anniversary River and Marine Industry Seminar of the Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association in New Orleans saw an appearance by former co-director Maurice Hebert, now… Read More
Erston Reisch Jr. passed away on January 7 after a short illness. He was 83 years old. After serving in the Coast Guard as an engineman, Reisch attended Tulane University,… Read More
For more than three quarters of a century, the Vicksburg Engineer District’s Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) has deployed in low-water months anywhere from Cairo, Ill., to Head of Passes near… Read More
The 23rd River Bell Awards Luncheon, benefiting the Seamen’s Church Institute, attracted a record crowd of nearly 600 people, raising more than $500,000, also a new record. The event, held… Read More
The year 2023 was another busy, productive but tumultuous one for the U.S. economy and the barge industry. The effects of the ongoing El Niño-Southern Oscillation whipsawed river levels and… Read More
Tows are waiting an average of 13 to 15 hours to begin locking through Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River, more than two years after remnants of a hurricane sank… Read More
The Consul General of Ukraine in Houston, Texas, Vitalii Tarasiuk, traveled to south Louisiana at the end of August to meet with officials from both the Port of New Orleans… Read More