The new administration’s infrastructure priorities will become clearer over the next few weeks and months. We hope that ports and waterways are given more than lip service in whatever emerges. Read More
Coronavirus
On October 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Framework for Conditional Sailing Order that introduces a phased approach for the safe and responsible resumption of… Read More
Health experts have been warning about a second wave of the coronavirus for months, and now it is here. The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918–19 lasted about 18 months and… Read More
Reduced demand from the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions combined with hurricanes to drop barge utilization rates and lower inland revenues by 22 percent, Kirby Corporation announced as it released its third-quarter… Read More
Washington, D.C.—A new subcabinet agency formed in part to recommend actions to maintain and modernize transportation on the nation’s inland waterways will lead an effort to map the waters of the… Read More
Kathryn Clay, president of the International Liquid Terminals Association, which has many members that operate liquids terminals on the inland waterways, commended the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency October 7 for… Read More
Washington, D.C.—The Maritime Administration (MarAd) has launched a new Marine Highway module of the Port Planning & Investment Toolkit to help U.S. ports plan, evaluate and finance freight transportation projects. Read More
Maritime law has always been a world apart, with different remedies, precedents and rules than those available in the rest of the legal world. When it comes to the coronavirus,… Read More
Panelists discussed the “State of the Industry In A COVID-19 World and Beyond” to open the day September 30 at the virtual Inland Marine Expo, presented by The Waterways Journal. Read More
Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump signed into law a stopgap spending bill to keep federal agencies funded through December 11 and avoid a government shutdown. With only hours left in fiscal… Read More
