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Lawmakers Work To Avert Another Shutdown Washington Waves

Lawmakers Work To Avert Another Shutdown

February 1, 2019

Washington, D.C.—With the longest government shutdown in history over, attention turned to 17 lawmakers charged with coming up with a compromise on border security and preventing another funding lapse. The… Read More

Efforts Afoot To Prevent Another Shutdown WJ Editorial

Efforts Afoot To Prevent Another Shutdown

February 1, 2019

After the January 28 Waterways Journal went to press, the White House and Congress finally agreed on a measure to temporarily end the partial shutdown of government—for three weeks, at… Read More

State Of The Industry: Trade Uncertainty Still Dominates Outlook For 2019 Trade negotiations, the future of coal and a new Congress are among the wildcards that make it difficult to predict the fortunes of the barge industry this year. (Photo by Rev. David Rider)

Trade negotiations, the future of coal and a new Congress are among the wildcards that make it difficult to predict the fortunes of the barge industry this year. (Photo by Rev. David Rider)

State Of The Industry: Trade Uncertainty Still Dominates Outlook For 2019

January 25, 2019

Every year at this time, The Waterways Journal asks leading experts and players in the barge industry and among its major customers to speak about the opportunities and challenges of… Read More

Update: Government To Reopen For Three Weeks Washington Waves

Update: Government To Reopen For Three Weeks

January 25, 2019

Update: President Trump announced January 25 that he had agreed to reopen the government for three weeks, until February 15, giving Congress and the administration time to work out a… Read More

NWC Opposes Using Corps Money For Border Wall Washington Waves

NWC Opposes Using Corps Money For Border Wall

January 18, 2019

Washington, D.C.—The National Waterways Conference (NWC) opposes using U.S. Army Corps of Engineers funding for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. “We are strongly opposed to the diversion… Read More

No End In Sight For Partial Government Shutdown WJ Editorial

No End In Sight For Partial Government Shutdown

January 4, 2019

As long as the standoff over funding for a border wall persists between President Donald Trump and his Democratic opposition in the House of Representatives, with its new Democratic majority,… Read More

Bill Seeks To Avoid Shutdown Of DOT, DHS Washington Waves

Bill Seeks To Avoid Shutdown Of DOT, DHS

December 21, 2018

Washington, D.C.—Federal agencies important to the waterways industry and others would be funded through February 8 by a stopgap spending bill passed by the Senate to avoid a partial government… Read More

Washington Waves: December 10, 2018

December 7, 2018

Washington, D.C.—Industry groups that depend on inland waterways welcomed the recent trade talks between the U.S. and China that appear to have put on hold additional tariff increases on Chinese… Read More

Washington Waves: November 26, 2018

November 24, 2018

Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump told acting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler that he “is going to be made permanent.” “He’s done a fantastic job, and I want to… Read More

Trade Reform Is A Long Game WJ Editorial

Trade Reform Is A Long Game

November 21, 2018

One of the most interesting moments at the recently concluded Waterways Symposium came in a parenthetical remark by keynote presenter Allen Sinai, a well-known economist and forecaster. Sinai said that… Read More