Louisiana-based Bollinger Shipyards has announced it has been awarded a contract to build the U.S. Navy’s seventh Auxiliary Personnel Lighter-Small (APL 73) class berthing and messing barge. The contract award… Read More
Mississippi
Making landfall September 12 as a Category 2 storm in Terrebonne Parish, La., Hurricane Francine brought torrential rain and storm surge to southeast Louisiana and knocked out power to almost… Read More
Stakeholders of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), which connects the Tennessee River at the shared border of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile, Ala., will gather… Read More
Col. Jeremiah Gipson assumed command of the Vicksburg Engineer District from Col. Christopher Klein in a formal change of command ceremony June 14. Mississippi Valley Engineer Division Commander Brig. Gen. Read More
Officials from the city of Vicksburg, Miss., and Warren County have made significant progress over the past two years securing land and conducting engineering and design work for a new… Read More
The Mobile Engineer District’s Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project management team held a ribbon cutting and grand opening October 5 for the waterway’s new Waterway Management Center, located on a bluff overlooking… Read More
A three-judge panel in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, made up of Chief Judge Priscilla Richman, Judge James C. Ho and Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt, has ruled in… Read More
U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. has ruled against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a lawsuit brought by Harrison County, Miss., and a host of other southern Mississippi… Read More
Lockport, La.-based Bollinger Shipyards has reached an agreement to acquire Pascagoula, Miss., shipbuilders VT Halter Marine Inc. and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore (STEHMO) from parent company ST Engineering North… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced more than $703 million in Port Infrastructure Development Program grants to fund 41 projects in 22 states and one territory October 28. PIDP grants are… Read More
