Top 5 stories of March 2021
In March, the maritime industry reached a full year of ongoing COVID-19 issues as it continued on recovery efforts. March also saw one of the largest ever disruptions to maritime trade as
In March, the maritime industry reached a full year of ongoing COVID-19 issues as it continued on recovery efforts. March also saw one of the largest ever disruptions to maritime trade as
The Mississippi River at the Carrollton Gage in New Orleans has risen above 11 feet prompting the New Orleans Engineer District to activate Phase I flood fight procedures beginning March 11, 2021.
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on an incident in which a fully laden product tanker plowed into moored vessels, barges and wharves causing some $40.5 million of damages.
The St. Paul Engineer District, locked its last tow of the season November 30, ending the navigation season on the Upper Mississippi River. Traditionally, the last tow heading south of Lock and
American Cruise Lines, Guilford, Conn., reports that just two months after accepting delivery of the American Jazz, its next new ship is already being readied for launch at its affiliate, Chesapeake Shipbuilding
The Big River Coalition says it has confirmed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) was forced to adjust the previously advertised schedule of work for revetment and stone berm operations
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) officially kicked off the historic deepening of the Mississippi River Ship Channel to 50 feet on September 11, as Weeks Marine’s cutterhead dredge Captain Frank
An agreement announced today could position Cairo, Ill., as a national logistics and distribution hub for the intermodal container shipping industry. The agreement between the Alexander Cairo Port District, Plaquemines Port Harbor
Hurricane Laura came ashore near Cameron, La., with sustained winds of 150 mph at 1 a.m. as a Category 4 hurricane, but has since been weakening. Even before the storm came ashore,
A project that aims to develop a multimodal container terminal in Plaquemines Parish, La., has taken another step forward. The proposed 1,000-acre terminal, with 8,200 feet of Mississippi River frontage 50 miles