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Industry Leaders Share Success Stories From ‘Who Works The Rivers’ Brian Karl (left), mechanic for Crescent Towing in New Orleans, speaks to high school students touring the company’s west bank headquarters during a recent Who Works the Rivers event. Andrew Cooper, executive vice president of Crescent Towing, served as tour guide for the students. (Photo courtesy of Crescent Towing)

Brian Karl (left), mechanic for Crescent Towing in New Orleans, speaks to high school students touring the company’s west bank headquarters during a recent Who Works the Rivers event. Andrew Cooper, executive vice president of Crescent Towing, served as tour guide for the students. (Photo courtesy of Crescent Towing)

Industry Leaders Share Success Stories From ‘Who Works The Rivers’

March 6, 2020

RiverWorks Discovery, the educational outreach program of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa, has been sponsoring its popular Who Works the Rivers marine industry career discovery… Read More

Company Salvages Flipped Barge Big River Shipbuilding dispatched a pair of barge-mounted A-frame cranes to the site and successfully flipped the barge and pumped water from its holds on September 16. (Photo courtesy of Big River Shipbuilding Inc.)

Big River Shipbuilding dispatched a pair of barge-mounted A-frame cranes to the site and successfully flipped the barge and pumped water from its holds on September 16. (Photo courtesy of Big River Shipbuilding Inc.)

Company Salvages Flipped Barge

October 1, 2018

On September 12, Vicksburg, Miss.-based Big River Shipbuilding Inc.’s salvage and marine fire fighting unit was called to Mile 673 on the Lower Mississippi River near West Helena, Ark., to… Read More