Low water on the Mississippi River slows critical freight flows

In an update on Mississippi freight shipments, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) says that “currently, low water levels in the Lower Mississippi River due to scant rainfall have severely hampered

Cannelton Locks and Dam

Cannelton Locks and Dam primary lock chamber reopens to navigation traffic

The 1,200-foot primary chamber at Cannelton Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Cannelton, Ind., officially reopened to navigation traffic on November 13. Due to scheduled maintenance and repairs, the 1200-foot

Seaway Administrator

Tindall-Schlicht named new Seaway Development Corporation Administrator

Adam Tindall-Schlicht, until recently port director at the Port of Milwaukee, has been named as the eleventh Administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS).

Coastal Cat

American Cruise Lines starts construction of third Coastal Cat

American Cruise Lines (ACL), Guilford, Conn., is moving steadily ahead on its Project Blue project that will see it add a series of 241 feet long, 56 feet wide catamaran hulled vessels

Little Rock Deputy District Commander Major ChaTom “CT” Warren to be promoted

Little Rock Engineer District Deputy Commander Maj. ChaTom “CT” Warren will be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on November 14, 2022. Warren assumed duties as the Deputy District Commander of the Little Rock

Green corridor

Initiative for Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway green corridor launched

Green shipping corridor announcements have been coming out of COP27, thick and fast. The plan to launch a green and digital transpacific corridor between San Pedro Bay ports and Singapore looks set

San Pedro Bay ports

San Pedro Bay ports and Singapore MPA in plans for Green Corridor

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and California’s San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have begun discussions to establish a green and digital shipping corridor between

Freya of Scapa is a Sanmar Shipyards Z-drive tug

Sanmar delivers third tug to Orkney Islands

After completing a 3,500 mile delivery journey from Turkey, Freyja of Scapa, the third new tug built by Sanmar Shipyards for Orkney Islands Council, has been welcomed to its new home in

ASD tractor tug

Bisso Towboat back at Main Iron Works for a further ASD tractor tug

Luling, La.-based Bisso Towboat Co., Inc. has signed an agreement with Main Iron Works LLC, Houma, La., to begin construction of a 5,000 BHP ASD tractor tug. The tug will feature two

cybersecurity

PODCAST: Jones Walker talks port and terminal cybersecurity

In this edition of Marine Log’s Listen Up! podcast, we talk with Andrew Lee and Ford Wogan of law firm Jones Walker to gain insights into ways in which cybersecurity training is

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