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 ...

Towboat carves icy channel on the Mississippi River at Alton in 1948 ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Waterways Operators, the trade association of the American tugboat, towboat and barge industry, has released a new video on the industry's ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Coast Guard Station San Juan boat crew rescued two aliens, Sunday, after they jumped from a barge into the water while ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Waterways Operators, the trade association of the American ...