America’s largest tank barge operator, Houston-headquartered Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX), today reported third quarter net earnings of $27.5 million, or $0.46 per share, compared with net earnings of $48.0 million or $0.80
As coal shipments on U.S. inland waterways continue to decline, terminals at which coal was a primary commodity are having to diversify their business. Hendricks River Logistics, located at Keokuk, Iowa, at
Galveston, Texas-based Callan Marine has been awarded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract for maintenance dredging of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, from Rollover Pass to the Galveston Causeway. This project will
The Shearer Group Inc. (TSGI) is celebrating 10 years of business. In 2010, Gregory Beers, P.E., and Cory Wood, purchased the assets of Shearer & Associates Inc. from Ed Shearer, P.E., and
Coupeville, Wash., shipbroker Marcon International Inc. reports that its president, Robert Beegle, who founded the company in 1981, retired effective October 1, 2020. Ownership and management of the company have been taken
America’s largest provider of dredging services, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (NASDAQ: GLDD), is moving its corporate headquarters from Oak Brook, Ill., to Houston. The company says that the move puts
Gulf Island Fabrication Inc. (NASDAQ: GIFI) plans to expand the workforce at its Houma, La., Gulf Island Shipyards division. According to an announcement by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Gulf Island
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) reports that Anthony Roy Wolfe, the owner of MV Wallaroo—an unseaworthy, ex-navy tug boat—was convicted of hindering a Commonwealth public official in Cairns Magistrate Court on
The BL Duke River Terminal, a division of BL Duke, is planning to resume normally scheduled business as repairs to the Illinois Waterway near completion. Northbound traffic from the Port of New
In its just released third quarter report, pipeline giant and terminal operator Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) reported third quarter net income of $455 million, compared to $506 million in the third