In March 2021, American Commercial Barge Line’s Western Terminal, also known as the Hall Street facility, temporarily warm idled. Today, it is back up and transloading Powder River Basin coal from rail… Read More
Missouri
The Memphis Engineer District held a groundbreaking ceremony in Caruthersville, Mo., April 3 to celebrate a federally funded project to replace the Caruthersville Mississippi River floodwall. The estimated contract award… Read More
Circular SynTech LLC, a company specializing in transforming solid waste into chemicals for manufacturing, announced February 18 it is expanding to New Madrid, Mo. The company will invest $91.4 million… Read More
Sal Litrico, CEO of American Patriot Container Transport LLC (APCT), made a long-awaited announcement December 17 at a press event in Herculaneum, Mo. Litrico, whose company is developing the patented… Read More
A group of farmer-funded and farmer-led organizations—including the United Soybean Board, the Soy Transportation Coalition, the Illinois Soybean Association, the Iowa Soybean Association, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, the Minnesota… Read More
Culver-Stockton College is a small liberal arts college of about 1,000 students, located on a hill overlooking the Mississippi River. Founded in 1853 and affiliated with the Disciples of Christ,… Read More
Capt. Robert Earl “Bobby” Powell, 95, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died August 6 of heart failure. He had a long and distinguished river career, starting with working on his grandfather… Read More
Fifty years ago this month, in 1971, Bob Miller inserted a key into the lock on the door of his one-man office in Clayton, Mo., a subdivision of St. Louis,… Read More
The $222 million project to replace the Merchants Bridge that links Missouri and Illinois at downtown St. Louis reached a milestone September 17, with the first of three new trusses… Read More
Raised on a farm in Boonville, Mo., a strategic point for the Santa Fe Trail in the 1820s because of its location on the Missouri River, Danny Pethan grew to… Read More