The Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association (GNOBFA) will host its 41st annual Marine Industry Seminar in just over a month. As in years past, the GNOBFA seminar will take… Read More
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Rocket Lab USA of Long Beach, Calif., has announced the acquisition of a barge from New Orleans-based Canal Barge Company that will serve as an ocean landing platform for rockets… Read More
Delgado Community College has upgraded its Full Mission Navigation suite and developed Louisiana’s only Coast Guard-approved, computer-based advanced firefighting program, said Rick Schwab, senior director of the Maritime and Industrial… Read More
We Work The Waterways (WWTW) plans to debut a new pilot program April 18 in Paducah, Ky., and later in Louisiana. The program, which has been under the umbrella of… Read More
On February 9, more than a third of all Americans will likely tune in to watch Super Bowl 59, with the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Philadelphia… Read More
The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA), the sixth largest U.S. cruise port and the only port in the country that offers both ocean-going and river cruising, set a new… Read More
One of America’s newest waterways, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom), turned 40 last month. Four decades ago, on January 14, 1985, the mv. Eddie Waxler departed Mobile, Ala., and headed up… Read More
A blanket of freezing, sub-zero temperatures and ice has descended on much of the central United States, all the way down to the Lower Mississippi River and Gulf Coast, where… Read More
Between serving lunch and preparing dinner on the mv. Rich McCarty, Max Hiller sits down at the table in the galley and writes the next chapter in his award-winning detective… Read More
New Orleans-based port chaplaincy organization Global Maritime Ministries (GMM) hosted its annual Lighthouse Gala September 19 at the Audubon Tea Room, a banquet hall adjoining the city’s Audubon Zoo. Global… Read More
