The Mississippi River System is characterized as the backbone of the economy of the United States, connecting 18 states and the global marketplace. The combined population of those states totals… Read More
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Recent inland waterways industry news, covering the Mississippi River, Ohio River, Missouri River, Tennessee River, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and more. Articles on economic, environmental and logistic advantages of barge shipping, plus other stories pertaining to locks and dams and other waterway infrastructure.
Precipitation in Louisiana and throughout the Mississippi Valley has led to a rise on the Lower Mississippi River, prompting officials at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans to issue high water… Read More
Barges remained pinned against both Emsworth and Dashields locks and dams, and a sunken barge was located nearly a week after a 26-barge breakaway on the upper Ohio River that… Read More
Washington, D.C.—President Joe Biden and his U.S. trade representative (USTR) are taking on China over unfairly targeting the maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors for dominance. “They’re not competing. They’re cheating,”… Read More
For the second year in a row, the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA) will hold its annual conference at Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, Ala., with this year’s event—the 74th… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District is soliciting bids from contractors for the final contract in the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project in Chattanooga, Tenn. The contract includes constructing the new approach wall… Read More
The Corps of Engineers reported only slight improvement in the runoff forecast for the upper Missouri River Basin. “The overall lack of snowpack in both the plains and the mountains… Read More
Last year at the Inland Marine Expo (IMX), The Waterways Journal presented the annual IMX Achievement Award posthumously to the late Mike Rushing, founder of Rushing Marine Service and a… Read More
On a small island on the western bank of the Upper Mississippi River, at Mile 535.5, about halfway between Davenport and Dubuque, sits the little town of Sabula, population about… Read More
The American Equity Underwriters Inc. (AEU), the leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance for waterfront employers, announced the winners of the 2023 AEU Safety Awards on April 10. AEU, the program… Read More
