The Corps of Engineers has announced intermittent lock closures at Barkley, Cheatham and Chickamauga dams. Barkley Barkley Lock, at Cumberland River Mile 30.6 in Grand Rivers, Ky., is closing for… Read More
Tennessee River
Hughes Heating & Cooling, Memphis, Tenn., has expanded its midstream heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration service beyond its traditional area of service between Vicksburg, Miss., and Cape Girardeau, Mo., on… Read More
Gen. Scott Spellmon, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, visited the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project on February 3 to meet with project managers and engineers and get… Read More
Jayson Grimes was 19 back in 1990 when he went to work aboard towboats. He credits a few friends of his who’d already started out in the industry with introducing… Read More
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell touted inclusion of funds to combat against invasive Asian carp species as part of the recently passed 2020 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). McConnell championed… Read More
Work continues on the addition of a second chamber at Kentucky Lock, with completion of the downstream cofferdam contract sometime in February projected to temporarily ease navigation delays that have… Read More
This has been the wettest year in the Tennessee River Valley for at least 131 years, according to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). TVA determined that the valley set a… Read More
Despite the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Mark Burchfield, owner of RMB Marine Services, sees opportunities in the maritime industry: namely, the opportunity for his harbor and fleeting… Read More
Over the past decade, the northern part of Alabama, including the state’s second most populous city of Huntsville, has seen remarkable growth. Not only has Huntsville in recent years leapfrogged… Read More
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, the shortcut between the Tennessee River in the north and Mobile Harbor and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in the south, is wrapping up a busy dredging and… Read More
