The Mississippi State Port Authority, the state agency that oversees the daily operations of the Port of Gulfport, announced April 9 it has signed a letter of intent with YilPort… Read More
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This week at the Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals (IRPT) conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anthony Hauer, port director of the Port of Natchez, Miss., will hand over his reins as… Read More
Students from the Architecture, Construction, Mechatronics and Engineering Academy at Vicksburg High School in Mississippi, visited the Vicksburg District harbor facility and toured the dredge Jadwin. The group of fourteen… Read More
With a crew of 20 shipyard workers, Nichols Boat Company in Greenville, Miss., usually has no problem scheduling work. It normally staggers construction of the boats in order to even… Read More
Oakley’s Port 33, Catoosa, Okla., took delivery of a new harbor boat recently. Built by Jantran Inc., at its Rosedale, Miss., shipyard, the new boat measures 56 feet long by… Read More
Nearly six decades ago today, on March 26, 1959, the 318-foot long steamer Sprague embarked on a journey from Vicksburg, Miss. The retired riverboat became a tourist attraction in 1948,… Read More
VT Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., a company of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., held a ceremony March 8 to commence construction on America’s first Liquefied Natural Gas Articulated Tug and… Read More
A tow of 28 barges broke up in the Lower Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Miss., on March 19 after the towboat pushing it lost power and the current pushed the… Read More
Growing up fishing along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, Ty Wilkerson was always intrigued by passing towboats. That interest eventually led him to apply to a job… Read More
A total of 780 military vehicles on 30 barges pushed by two towboats and an assist boat departed Fort Campbell, located at Clarksville, Tenn., February 12. The assortment of trucks… Read More
