Barge shipping on the Illinois River and parts of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Monday as flooding forced the closure of numerous locks and crews worked to recover dozens of barges that broke free in flood-swollen currents. The U.S. Coast Guard will close a section of the Illinois River near Peoria…
The CMA CGM Group is pleased to announce that the CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, second of the world’s largest and state of the art containership’s series, begins its first voyage today, Friday, April 19th in Pusan, South Korea. Built by DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering) in South Korea, this giant of the…
The search continues in waters south of Hong Kong for six crewmen, missing since a collision between two mainland barges in thick fog near Beaufort Island last night. The two barges collided in the waters south of Bluff Head near Beaufort Island at about 7:50 p.m. on Thursday. One of the barges – carrying…
On April 20, 2010, a massive explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, killed 11 people and prompted the largest offshore oil spill in American history. “On the third anniversary of the tragic accident in the Gulf of Mexico, our…