On Tuesday evening, Gov. Jeff Landry will join the American Commercial Barge Line and C&C Marine to welcome the M/V ACBL Mariner, dubbed "the most powerful and capable towboat ever built for ...

Seven deals have taken place in the local maritime industry since March, including Bisso and Canal Barge, which both sold to ...

Laborde Products announced the completion of a repower project for the towboat Ned Merrick, owned by Canal Barge Company. The project featured the replacement of the vessel's previous engines with two ...

NEW MATAMORAS – Temperatures well below freezing are playing havoc with barge traffic plowing through the ice-covered Ohio River. One towboat pushing 15 loads of coal was stranded for several hours in ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday the local shipping season on the Mississippi River has begun. The first towboat, with nine barges, passed through Lock and Dam 2 in ...

ARLINGTON, Va., June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Waterways Operators has released a new video highlighting the indispensable role of the tugboat, towboat and barge industry during the ...

U.S. Coast Guard employees were dispatched to Cape Girardeau on Monday morning to investigate an incident in which a towboat from the Missouri Barge Line struck the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge, ...

Washington State Ferries announced it has sold a pair of retired vessels for recycling in Ecuador.Sold for $100,000 apiece, the ferries Elwha and Klahowya have been acquired by Nelson Armas, who has ...

LA PUSH, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard is working on a plan to tow in a loose barge after rescuing five people who were on board when it lost steering off the Washington coast Friday. The Luther, a 130 ...

A container ship struck a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing it to plunge into the river below. From 1960 to 2015, there were 35 major bridge collapses worldwide due to ship or barge ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- During their recent 2018 Fall Convention in Houston, the members of The American Waterways Operators, the national trade association representing the U.S.