The Coast Guard has recommended manslaughter charges against the operators of the tugboat that crashed into a Miami Yacht ...

The Coast Guard’s Rules of Navigation, which dictate maritime law, stipulate who has the right of way in the waterways and set forth conditions for lookouts on vessels.

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 ...

WEST HAVEN — A pair of 140-foot barges that washed ashore in Milford amid stormy conditions last week and then drifted north ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A missing retaining ring and mounting bracket on the port main diesel engine led to an engine-room fire on a towing vessel near Belleview, Ky., the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ...

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, ...

The oldest towboat still plying the waters of the Ohio-Mississippi River system got a new lease on life this week when it was bought by a Wood County river transportation company. On Monday, the ...