New Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority Executive Director Jim Garrett has lots of familiarity with both the river industry and the community. Garrett, 59, spent most of his years in the… Read More
West Virginia
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Highway Administration (MarAd) awarded $4.85 million in Marine Highway Program grants December 3 to five projects. Marine Highway grants aim to expand the use… Read More
In the July 22 and July 29 issues of The Waterways Journal, this column detailed the innovative new diesel towboats Wm. Penn and Ductillite that Dravo built in 1940. At… Read More
Sixty years ago this past week, on June 23, 1963, a sternwheel towboat race was held at Charleston, W.Va., in conjunction with the centennial celebrations for the state of West… Read More
Mountwest Maritime Academy has opened a second training site, in Woodsfield, Ohio, with a plan to introduce both high school students and adults to the maritime industry. The new location… Read More
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, recently urged the chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to speed… Read More
After a 14-year absence, the Charleston, W.Va., Sternwheel Regatta has returned to the Kanawha River, and it took place over the Fourth of July weekend. The once enormously popular event… Read More
Nucor Steel West Virginia has applied to the Huntington Engineer District for a permit to build a fleeting area capable of holding 40 barges in the Ohio River about 2… Read More
Frontieras North America, a subsidiary of Frontier Applied Sciences, announced recently that it will construct a plant along the Ohio River in Mason County, W.Va. The FASForm Energy plant uses… Read More
Twenty boats have already registered for the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta, which is returning to West Virginia for the first time since 2008 and expected to draw an estimated 250,000 people,… Read More
