Port Houston recently announced its goal to be carbon neutral in the next 30 years. Port officials plan to achieve a net-zero greenhouse gas footprint by 2050 by upgrading technology,… Read More
Houston Ship Channel
Turn Services, a New Orleans-based provider of fleeting and towing services, recently announced its expansion into Texas with a new fleeting location near Houston. The company’s new La Porte Fleet… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced November 22 that it had signed a $92.5 million contract for the Houston Ship Channel Widening and Improvement Project, called Project 11. Read More
Port Houston Chairman Ric Campo delivered the 2021 State of the Port address last month to a sold-out audience, which observed COVID-19 protocols at the Greater Houston Partnership’s first in-person… Read More
On July 8, a federal district judge in Houston exonerated Kirby Inland Marine from any liability or fault in a May 2019 collision in the Houston Ship Channel. The collision… Read More
The Houston office of St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies has announced it has been awarded three port construction projects at sites on the Houston Ship Channel. Two of the three… Read More
Chem Carriers, a Sunshine, La.-based operator of towboats, tank barges and a fleet at Mile 207 on the Lower Mississippi River, christened a pair of towing vessels June 23 in… Read More
The schedule of events at the upcoming annual seminar of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA), to be held at the Westin Canal Place in New Orleans August 4–6, testifies… Read More
In late May, Bayou La Batre, Ala.-based Steiner Construction Company delivered a pair of new-built towboats to American Commercial Barge Line (ACBL), with both vessels joining ACBL’s operations in the… Read More
A groundbreaking ceremony May 3 marked the start of the Houston Ship Channel Project 11 construction program. The nearly billion-dollar project will create safer and more efficient navigation for the… Read More
