For nearly 30 years, Turn Services, the New Orleans-based fleeting and shifting company with operations from Baton Rouge, La., to the Gulf and along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, has built… Read More
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Hurricane Michael made landfall around midday October 10 at Mexico Beach, Fla., just east of Panama City. With sustained winds near 155 mph. at landfall, Michael was the most powerful… Read More
Mariners on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway east of Houston last week might have caught a glimpse of a towboat that’s not only new to the waterway but also marks a… Read More
The Galveston Engineer District reported September 12 that it has received funding to conduct maintenance dredging at the Channel to Port Mansfield navigation project. The Channel to Port Mansfield navigation… Read More
Officials from West Calcasieu Port, located in Sulphur, La., about 12 miles south of Interstate 10 along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, announced August 24 that work to dredge the port’s… Read More
Tropical Storm Gordon, the first official tropical system to make a U.S. landfall during the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season, came ashore late in the night September 4 near Pascagoula, Miss.,… Read More
Inland mariners running east of New Orleans are very familiar with Chef Menteur Pass and, a little farther east, the Rigolets. They’re natural passes with strong tidal currents that you… Read More
As the sun set August 9 over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) and Calcasieu Lock in Lake Charles, La., the construction crew working to replace the lock’s south guide wall… Read More
Topics discussed at the 113th annual seminar of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) were as varied and diverse as the communities and cargoes that touch the waterway and the… Read More
The New Orleans Engineer District has announced the most up-to-date closure schedules for three locks on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in South Louisiana. Bayou Boeuf Lock, which recently had its… Read More