Watco Companies LLC, based in Pittsburg, Kan., announced that it has recently acquired the assets of Industrial Terminals L.P. and entered into a long-term lease for the use and operation… Read More
Texas
More than 100 years ago, there was a waterways transportation company that brought innovations in freight- and material-handling, expediting and dispatching to the ports of New Orleans, Galveston, Houston and… Read More
ExxonMobil Corporation has asked the Galveston Engineer District for permits to dredge a coker drum unloading site and a to build a coke/distillate dock at a site on the Neches… Read More
A call for abstracts has been issued for the 2018 National Coastal Conference hosted by the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) and the Coastal Zone Foundation. The event… Read More
After waiting 28 years for Congress to come up with funding for its 1990 authorization of dredging of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel to 54 feet, the Port of Corpus… Read More
The Port of Corpus Christi (Texas), the fourth largest port in the U.S. in total tonnage, has earned the 2018 Texas Environmental Excellence Award (TEEA) in Pollution Prevention, presented by… Read More
Gulf Island Fabrication Inc., Houston, Texas, announced March 19 that, through its subsidiary Gulf Island Shipyards, LLC, it has signed a contract for the construction and delivery of one Towing,… Read More
One person’s bygone outboard motor may be another’s tool for search and rescue. That’s what leaders at Texas Search and Rescue (TEXSAR) are hoping as it relates to the organization’s… Read More
Although most of the waterways-related items in President Trump’s proposed budget dismayed the towing industry and its allies and are unlikely to survive in Congress, the budget did give one… Read More
In 2017, Port Houston recorded a total of 38.3 million tons handled—an all-time record that broke the previous record of 37.8 million tons set in 2014. The port also reported… Read More
