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VOL. 125 No. 40January 2, 2012
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• Caution Urged Near Levees ..... 3
• New Progressive Towboat ......... 5
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WATERWAYS JOURNALthe Weekly
By Carlo J. SalzanoWJ Washington CorrespondentWashington, D.C.—Eighty-one con-
gressmen have signed a letter asking two administration officials to recommend and support the full utilization of annual Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund receipts to ensure that the 1,067 ports and harbors under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers remain open to handle in-ternational and domestic commerce.
The congressmen said in the letter dated December 20 and addressed to Ja-cob J. Lew, director of the Office of Man-agement and Budget and to Jo-Ellen Dar-cy, assistant secretary of the Army-civil works, that “the negative implications of underutilizing the fund are now becom-ing apparent.
“Year after year of insufficient main-tenance dredging of coastal and inland ports has resulted in reduced depths at the majority of large port facilities and has all but ignored the dredging needs of moderately sized or smaller ports.”
The congressmen said they are “strong supporters” of recent congressional ef-forts to fully utilize harbor maintenance revenue in the fund for the purpose for which they were collected.
“When harbors become filled with sediment, the corresponding reduction of commercial shipping has a significant adverse impact on the national, region-al, and local economies, as well as on the jobs that are directly—and indirectly—related to ports and shipping” the law-makers said.
TWIC Enforcement
The Coast Guard has available a pol-icy letter in which is detailed how the Coast Guard is relaxing its Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) enforcement posture for mariners who serve aboard vessels that are not required to have a vessel security plan.
The letter also describes policy chang-es to allow those mariners to acquire and renew a Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) without holding a valid TWIC.
The Coast Guard said the policy changes will help reduce the fees mari-ners pay to obtain or renew their MMC, as well as reduce the burden of having to make multiple trips to a TWIC enroll-ment center to apply for and collect a TWIC.
For more information, contact Luke Harden at 202, 372-1206.
Flood Insurance
The National Waterways Confer-ence reports that Congress has extended the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) through May 31. H.R. 2055, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012, provides for the extension unless compre-
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Corps Gets Disaster-Relief Funds After FloodingOfficially declared disaster areas along the Mississippi River
will receive much-needed repair funds under the Disaster Re-lief Appropriations Act signed by President Obama on Decem-ber 23. The Mississippi Valley Engineer Division will receive approximately $802 million of the $1.7 billion appropriated to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the division announced last week. Flood control and coastal emergencies will receive $388 million, and operations and maintenance activities will total $534 million, which includes dredging and repairs of damages to Corps projects.
Overall, the bill allocates $8.6 billion nationwide for disaster relief.
The Mississippi River and Tributaries System prevented more than $120 billion in damages during the 2011 flood, the largest recorded flood in the river’s history.
“This funding represents a vital investment in the most valuable flood risk reduction system in our nation, perhaps in the world,” said Maj. Gen. John Peabody, Mississippi Valley Division commander and president designee of the Mississippi River Commission. “Since the Mississippi River and Tributar-ies program was conceived in 1928, this comprehensive flood risk management system has earned its value many times over, representing over a 30:1 return on investment for American taxpayers today.”
While damage assessments to levees and operating projects from the 2011 flood are still underway, engineers estimate that repair costs for currently documented damages in the Mississip-pi Valley region alone are approaching $1 billion. “We’ve made significant progress in assessing damages up and down the riv-
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Inside This Issue
WJ Editorial: U.S., A Nation Out Of Cash, Slashes Budgets ...............................4
New Progressive Boat ..................5Barge Grain Movements ...............6Forthcoming Events .....................6Mv. Louis Develle.........................7On The Move................................8Classified Advertising ................10Historic Photo Collection ...........13Professional Directory ................13Old Boat Column........................14
Corps Urges Caution Near Levees, Revetments
Photo Page Features Mv. O. Nelson Jones
Following the River Bell Awards Luncheon in Paducah, Ky., Decem-ber 8 (See WJ, December 19), the Seamen’s Church Institute’s Center for Maritime Education rededicat-ed one of its simulator pilothouses in honor of the late Capt. Nelson Jones, who was president of Amherst Madi-son in Charleston, W.Va.
SCI also collaborated with maritime photographer Gregory Thorp to design a photography book that honors Jones, and presented the book to the Jones family at the rededication ceremony.
The book, Rivers Run Past, docu-ments the crew of the real mv. O. Nelson Jones at work. It features an introduc-tion by Mark Knoy, president of Amer-ican Commercial Lines, and a preface by the Rev. David M. Rider, president and executive director of SCI.
The book can be viewed online at http://smschur.ch/riversrunonline, or a bound hardcopy version can be purchased through http://smschur.ch/riversrunpast.
The WJ Photo Page on the inside back cover of this week’s issue features several photographs from the book.
The New Orleans Engineer District reminded mariners that revetments and levees along the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge, La., are more vulnera-ble to damage during current high river stages.
The revetments and levees “are sub-ject to damage from wave wash resulting from vessels traveling at excessive speeds, and also from contact with barges and vessels moored along the riverbank,” the district said in a navigation bulletin De-cember 23.
Mariners are advised to exercise ex-treme caution when navigating in the section of the river between Baton Rouge and Head of Passes, proceed at slowest safe speed, and steer a course as far away as possible from the levees and revetments to avoid damage by
suction and wave wash.Extreme caution was also advised
when navigating near locks in the New Orleans district, to prevent vessels and tows from coming in contact with the controlling levee line in those areas.
Mariners and fleet operators were also advised to secure vessels and barges to ensure that there is no contact with the levees or revetments, and the barges are no closer than 180 feet to the centerline of the levee.
“Vessel owners or other persons re-sponsible for any vessel or barges making contact with the levees and revetments in any way may be charged as provided for in Section 7 of the River and Harbor Act of 8 August 1917, and Title 33 of the United States Code, Sections 408 and 412,” the notice said.
Kinder Morgan To Build New Houston FacilityKinder Morgan Energy Partners an-
nounced December 14 that it will build, own and operate a petroleum conden-sate processing facility near its Gale-na Park terminal on the Houston Ship Channel.
With an initial throughput of 25,000 barrels per day (bpd.) and a design that provides for future expansions of up to 100,000 bpd., the approximately $130 million project will split condensate into its various components such as light and heavy naphthas, kerosene and gas oil, the company said in the announcement. A major oil industry customer is under-writing, through a fee structure, the ini-tial throughput of the facility, Kinder Morgan said.
“The location of our new facility, when combined with our recently announced
$220 million crude/condensate pipeline, will provide customers with unparalleled connectivity to crude oil and clean prod-ucts markets including refineries, chemi-cal companies, gasoline blenders, finished product storage, outbound pipelines and marine facilities on the Texas Gulf Coast,” said Tom Bannigan, KMP Products Pipe-lines president.
The project is expected to be complet-ed in January 2014.
The pipeline, which will transport crude/condensate from the Eagle Ford Shale in south Texas to the Houston Ship Channel, will consist of almost 70 miles of new-build construction and 113 miles of converted natural gas pipeline. Construc-tion on the pipeline began this month and Kinder Morgan expects it to be in service in the second quarter of 2012.
Paducah TWIC Facility Relocates January 17The Paducah TWIC Enrollment
Center announced that it would relo-cate to a new facility on January 17. Its new location will be at 611 Broad-way Street, about 1.6 miles from its current location on 2535 Broadway Street. The facility will also have new hours of operation: Monday through
Friday: 8 a.m. through 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. through 4 p.m.
Tractor-trailer parking is available for up to six trucks at a public parking lot lo-cated at the corner of Broadway Street and 7th Street, about a half-block from the Enrollment Center.
FOUR THE WATERWAYS JOURNAL January 2, 2012
WJ Editorial
H. Nelson SpencerPublisher
John S. ShoulbergEditor/Associate Publisher
Jack R. SimpsonContributing Editor (WJ Editorial)
Daniel C. OwenContributing Editor
David MurrayStaff Writer
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Capt. Richard Eberhardt Contributors
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Linda L. DeutschlanderAccounts Receivable
Julie FisherBookkeeper/Accounts Payable
Charlotte KraegenbrinkReceptionist
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hensive reform legislation is enacted pri-or to that date.
Efforts of the Levee Issues Alliance prevented inclusion of proposed House and/or Senate reforms in the bill, provid-ing additional time to develop a rationale and balanced long-term reauthorization of the program.
GAO On Port Security
The Government Accountability Of-fice has released two new reports on risk analysis and mitigation related to mari-time and port security. The first report ex-amined the Coast Guard’s primary tool for risk management—the Maritime Security Risk Analysis Model. The second report examined the Department of Homeland Security’s Port Security Grant Program (PSGP), which has been used to provide $1.7 billion in federal assistance to local ports and their maritime facilities.
In the course of examining the depart-ment’s PSGP, the GAO found that only about 25 percent of awarded grants have been drawn down by grantees, and an ad-ditional 25 percent of awarded grants re-main unavailable. They are unavailable for several reasons, including ongoing feder-al reviews, slow processes for consider-ing cost-share waiver requests, multiple open grant rounds, and weaknesses in grant management systems, GAO said. In some cases, the funds have been allocated to ports, but the ports have not identified specific projects for the funds. In other cases, GAO said, despite the availability of federal funds, ports have not applied for PSGP funds in years where there was a cost-sharing requirement.
Questions about the reports should be
addressed to Stephen L. Caldwell, direc-tor of GAO’s Maritime Security and Coast Guard issues.
Work After Retirement
In another report, the GAO conclud-ed that more than half of the high-ranking Coast Guard officials who left the service in recent years performed work for Coast Guard contractors.
The GAO said that while those employ-ees appear to have complied with all fed-eral restrictions and ethics rules, the Coast Guard ought to do more training to ensure that all its senior executives are fully aware of what actions are, and are not, permitted in performing work for contractors.
Over all, the former officials under re-view appeared to be complying with ap-propriate rules, the GAO said. “Based on the information provided on official roles and responsibilities, we did not find any evidence these former officials represent-ed themselves to the government in viola-tion of post-government employment re-strictions,” the GAO report said.
Atlantic Coast Study
The Coast Guard has reopened the comment period in connection with the Port Access Route Study being conduct-ed along the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Florida.
Last May, the Coast Guard announced that it was conducting the study to evalu-ate the continued applicability of, and the need for modifications to, current routing measures off the Atlantic Coast. At that time, the Coast Guard set a three-month comment period ending August 9, 2011.
After receiving 26 comments, the Coast Guard decided to reopen the com-ment period to seek more information to ensure that the study is comprehensive in
its data collection and analysis. The new comment deadline is January 31, 2012.
For more information, contact George Detweiler at 202, 372-1566.
Auxiliary Training Meeting
The Coast Guard Auxiliary national training meeting (N-TRAIN) is scheduled for January 22–29 at the Sheraton West-port Lakeside Chalet Hotel in St. Louis.
N-TRAIN is hosted by the Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, a non-profit organization focused on providing educa-tion, training and other program support to Auxiliary volunteers.
For more information on N-TRAIN 2012, visit: cgauxa.org/ntrain.html.
Bollinger Launches Cutter
The Coast Guard has launched its third Sentinel-class Fast Response Cut-ter, the William Flores, at Bollinger Ship-yards, Lockport, La.
The Sentinel-class cutters will be ca-pable of speeds in excess of 28 knots and operating in seas up to 18 feet. A fleet of 58 cutters will replace the Coast Guard’s Island-class patrol boats as “the workhors-es of America’s littoral, maritime fleet,” said Cmdr. Chris O’Neil, chief of media relations for the Coast Guard.
HazMat Bill
At a meeting December 14, the Sen-ate Commerce, Science and Transpor-tation Committee approved several sur-face transportation safety bills, including the Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 2011.
The measure (S. 1952) would reau-thorize the Pipeline and Hazardous Ma-terials Safety Administration’s Office of Hazardous Materials Safety within the Department of Transportation.
U.S., A Nation Out Of Cash, Slashes BudgetsA rich man, one with a fat wallet, can afford now and then
to make a mistake and eat the cost. An unemployed man who can’t afford to make his mortgage payments cannot. The wal-let of the United States is empty, and because of this, bud-get cuts are appearing big time. One of the latest victims is the Department of Homeland Security consolidation project, which, due to a recently passed bill, will be delayed at least five years and cost an additional $500 million (or more) be-cause of the delay.
The project is the planned consolidation (by the end of 2016) of DHS headquarters operations at the site of the former St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington. According to the Federal Times, “Congress approved $56 million to complete the new 1.1-million-square-foot Coast Guard headquarters, but it with-held funding to continue work on the other facilities that will populate the envisioned DHS headquarters campus.”
Other facilities that will be likewise delayed by half a decade will be headquarters facilities for the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency (FEMA), Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Times said.
The consolidation project, which was estimated to cost $3.45 billion by the end of fiscal 2016, will now cost at least $3.96 billion if completed by the end of fiscal 2021, provided it can be finished at all. The Coast Guard headquarters is the only part of the project that appears on track to wrap up on time, the Times said.
In 2011 DHS and the General Services Administration (GSA) got only $77 million for the consolidation project rather than the $668 million requested. The same agencies requested
$376 million for 2012 and got only $56 million for DHS (for the Coast Guard headquarters) and $50 million for all new GSA construction projects.
The various methods used for financing the consolidation project and/or getting more money for it are a tangled web we shall not try to unravel. The chairman of the House Appropria-tions subcommittee on Homeland Security, Rep. Robert Ader-holt (R-Ala.) issued a statement emphasizing, “there are greater priorities that need funding.” He said he would choose to fund “front-line operations and disaster relief” over providing addi-tional money for the consolidation. Rep. David Price (D-N.C.), the ranking member on the same subcommittee, said the con-solidation of DHS into one location is critical for a department responsible for so many missions.
From past experience, we all know that projects delayed cost more in the end because of rising labor and material costs. But there are other problems. Federal Times reports that its review of leasing data reveals that “FEMA has several leases valued at more than $6 million annually that expire within the next few years—all leases it would have to renew.”
Knowing how government works, we suggest that many things can happen in the next few years to change things again. We would like to shed a tear for the DHS and projected delays, but the inland waterways industry has been underfunded for at least three decades. Maintenance and improvements, including critical dredging, are being ignored. So we will remain dry-eyed. The waterways infrastructure is a proven investment.
We happen to believe that messing up our foreign trade program by allowing vital waterways to become unnavigable is worse than a delay in construction of new facilities for DHS.
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Progressive Puts Sixth Towboat Into Service
The 2,000 hp. mv. Patriot. Right: detail of eagle logo.
Progressive Barge Line recently took delivery of a new towboat, the mv. Patriot, expanding its fleet of vessels to six. The Westwego, La., barge and towing com-pany also has 11 tank barges. The Patriot pushes a 60,000-barrel tow on the Lower Mississippi River and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
Built by Raymond & Associates of Bayou la Batre, Ala., the new boat is 76 feet long by 35 feet wide with two Cum-mins KTA38 Tier II engines, rated 2,000 hp. total. It is a four-house, six-man boat, built to Progressive Barge Line’s specifica-tions, said Terry Boffone, president, with emphasis on crew comfort and safety.
“The well-being of our crews is our
primary concern,” he said.Progressive added hand rails on top
of the bulwarks and pilothouse. There is a walkway in front of the electron-ics room, which doubles as an exercise room; exterior stairways; a full fleet deck; and boxed-in overhangs for ease of maintenance, to name a few of the safe-ty features, Boffone said. For the crews’ comfort, there are flat-screen TVs in the bunkrooms, a fully furnished galley and a lounge, he added.
One thing that distinguishes the Patri-ot from other Progressive boats—as well as from all other boats, for that matter—is the eagle painted on its side. Each of the six vessels has an eagle, Boffone said,
but they are all different. “They are ea-gles with an attitude,” in keeping with the company’s patriotic theme for its boats. The other boats are named Freedom, Justice, Liberty, Old Glory and Spirit.
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Letters To The EditorThe Waterways Journal welcomes
letters from readers on any subjects related to the river industry. Letters sent for publication should be ad-dressed to: Letters to the Editor, The Waterways Journal, 319 N. Fourth St., Suite 650, St. Louis, Mo. 63102, or sent by fax to 314, 241-4207, or e-mail to [email protected]. Subject matter is not limited, but standards governing decency and li-bel apply. Writers are asked to limit letters to 250 words, or one double-spaced, typewritten page. The WJ re-serves the right to shorten longer let-ters and to edit for clarity. The writer’s name and address are required for all letters, but they can be omitted from publication upon request.
Registration Open For 2012 Inland
Waterways Conference
Registration is now open for the annual Inland Waterways Navigation-al Conference. This year’s event is set for March 6–8 at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch, St. Louis, Mo.
Hosted jointly by the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the towing industry and the passenger vessel industry, the event is always one of the most important conferences of the year. Organizers have increased the number of booths and size of the display area with the overall goal of in-creasing understanding of available re-sources for the river industry.
The agenda is still being finalized; the WJ will print more information as it becomes available.
Early-bird registration at a dis-counted rate is available until January 17. For more information or to regis-ter, visit www.inlandwaterwaysconfer-ence.com.
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er system, but this is an evolving process that will continue for some time,” said Al Lee, director of business for the division.
“Although the Mississippi River val-ley flood risk management system per-formed as designed this past year, the record flood waters inflicted serious dam-ages, requiring costly and time-consum-ing repairs,” said Robert Fitzgerald, the division’s chief of technical engineering. He added that even with the new funding available, that it will take years to restore the system to its pre-flood conditions.
With current river stages significantly above normal and weather forecasts for a wetter-than-usual flood season, the Corps is working the entire length of the river to prepare for the possibility of more flood-ing in the near term. The Corps will use
NAMS Conference SetThe National Association of Marine
Surveyors will hold the NAMSGlobal 50th Annual National Marine Confer-ence East March 4–6 at the Wyndham Bay Point Resort in Panama City, Fla. For information, visit the NAMSGlobal Web site at www.namesglobal.org.
WCI Washington MeetingsWaterways Council Inc. will hold its
2012 Washington Meetings, which in-clude the Waterways Seminar and the Leadership Service Award Dinner Feb-ruary 14–16 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C. For informa-tion, contact Medina Moran, 703, 373-2261, or visit www.waterwayscouncil.org. The deadline to register at the hotel un-der the group rate is January 16.
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the winter and spring seasons to advance plans and designs for repairs, so that it can optimize the construction of repairs once weather improves.
The effort to repair and restore the system will take time, energy, and coop-eration with multiple agencies at all gov-ernmental levels. The Corps depends on the experience and expert knowledge contributed by its many partners at the local, state and federal levels.
“Together, as a team, we’ll be able to overcome the challenges from the 2011 flood while preparing for future floods,” Peabody said. “Our goal is to deliver what American citizens expect from the Corps of Engineers—reliable flood risk reduction.”
The Northwestern Engineer Division said damage assessments of levees and op-erating projects following last summer’s floods on the Missouri River are still un-derway, but current estimates to make all
qualified repairs in the Missouri basin are expected to top $530 million. More than $120 million has already been received by the Corps for repairs in the Missouri basin.
‘Though we can’t complete all the nec-essary repairs before the next runoff sea-son, we will work as hard as we can to en-sure those projects with the highest life and safety priorities are ready and in place with the remainder completed as soon as possible.” Said Brig. Gen. John R. McMa-hon, Northwestern Division commander. Communities, businesses and individuals vulnerable to flooding will still need to be prepared for flood-fighting, he said.
Eligible levee repairs pertain to those deemed economically justifiable, with $15,000 or more in damages sustained in the recent flood event, and are active in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers PL 84-99 Rehabilitation and Inspection Pro-gram at the time of the flood event.
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BARGE GRAIN MOVEMENTS (1,000 tons)Week Ending 12-17-11 Week Ending 12-18-10
River/Lock Corn Wht. Soy. Other Total Corn Wht. Soy. Other TotalMiss./15 12 0 2 0 14 0 0 0 0 0Miss./25 84 0 168 0 252 16 0 39 2 57Miss./MP 400 0 280 2 682 243 0 136 2 381Miss./27 391 0 282 2 675 278 0 157 2 437Ill./8 241 0 88 2 330 225 0 87 0 311Ohio/52 68 16 91 2 176 71 14 119 0 204Ark./1 0 10 7 0 17 0 3 59 9 71Cumulative to date for Miss./27, Ohio/52 and Ark./1: Year Corn Wheat Soybeans Other grains Total2011 19,281 1,409 8,047 421 29,1582010 21,984 1,165 9,809 461 33,419*Other grains include barley, sorghum and oats. Totals may not add due to rounding.
Source: USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation & Marketing Division/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
SOUTHBOUND BARGE FREIGHT RATES Date M/SP MM Ill. R StL Cinc L. Ohio C/M Rate 12-20-11 -- -- 353 260 335 335 238 (actual) 12-13-11 -- -- 380 278 353 353 257
Rate January -- -- 375 278 358 358 243 (future) March -- 403 393 277 352 352 242
$/Ton 12-20-11 -- -- 16.38 10.37 15.71 13.53 7.47 $/Ton 12-13-11 -- -- 17.63 11.09 16.56 14.26 8.07
Current week percentage change from same week: Last year -- -- -32 -32 -18 -18 -34 3-yr. avg. -- -- -23 -30 -15 -14 -25 Notes: M/SP: Minneapolis/St. Paul MM: Middle Mississippi C/M: Cairo/Memphis Rate = percent of 1976 tariff benchmark index. Source: Transportation and Marketing Programs/AMS/U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Waterways Journal will be glad to list the city, date and place of your meeting in this column, provided it is of interest to the barge and towing industry or allied businesses, is national or regional in scope, and is received at least three weeks prior to the meeting date. Address your announcement to Forthcoming Events Editor.
January 28–31, 2012. Passenger Vessel Association, PVA Annual Convention at MariTrends 2012, Holton Portland & Executive Tower, Portland, Ore. Contact: www.passengervessel.com.
February 14–16, 2012. Waterways Council Inc., 2012 Washington Meetings, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Washington, D.C. Contact: Medina Moran, phone 703, 373-2261; Internet www.waterwayscouncil.org.
February 15–17, 2012. Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council, 30th annual World Trade & Transport Conference, Omni Royal Orleans, New Orleans, La. Contact: www.mvttc.com.
February 21–22, 2012. Mississippi Department of Transportation, Transportation and Economic Symposium, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Miss. Contact: Bill McAnally, 666, 325-2809; e-mail [email protected].
February 22–24, 2012. Red River Valley Association, annual convention, Diamond Jacks Hotel and Convention Center, Bossier City, La. Contact: Richard Brontoli, executive director, P.O. Box 709, Shreveport, LA 71162-0709; phone 318, 221-5233; fax 318, 425-0516; e-mail [email protected].
March 4–6, 2012. National Association of Marine Surveyors, NAMSGlobal 50th Anniversary National Marine Conference East, Wyndham Bay Point Resort, Panama City, Fla. Contact: Internet www.namsglobal.org.
March 5, 2012. Mid American REC Workgroup, annual meeting, 1-5 p.m., Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. Contact: e-mail [email protected].
March 6–8, 2012. Corps of Engineers, Coast Guard, Passenger Vessel Association and inland waterways industry, 2012 Inland Waterways Conference, Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. Contact: Internet www.inlandwaterwaysconference.com.
April 10–12, 2012. Port of New Orleans and American Institute for International Steel, Critical Commodities Conference, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans, La. Contact: Internet www.criticalcommoditiesconference.com.
April 25–27, 2012. Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association, Annual River and Marine Industry Seminar, Hotel InterContinental, New Orleans, La. Contact: www.gnobfa.net.
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Greetings Of The Season
Kentucky Bridge Closed After Barge Strike
NRF: Taxing Cargo Imported Through Mexican, Canadian Ports Won’t Work The National Retail Federation told
the Federal Maritime Commission De-cember 22 that imposing a tax on U.S.-bound cargo brought into Mexican and Canadian ports could violate internation-al trade laws and would not drive traffic back to U.S. ports.
“There are numerous factors that re-tailers use when deciding their supply chain operations and what ports they will use to get products to their store shelves. Critical to these are service, reliability and speed to market,” said Matthew Shay, NRF president and chief executive offi-cer. “Applying a Harbor Maintenance Tax to cross-border traffic will not drive cargo back to the U.S. for distribution.”
Shay said federal, state and local poli-cies that encourage investment in infra-structure projects to make ports more efficient and reduce transit times could help shippers choose U.S. ports over for-eign ports. He urged U.S. officials to look at work done with Canadian ports “as an example of what is needed for a national freight policy that will help make the U.S. more competitive.”
Shay’s remarks came in comments filed with the FMC, which is examining whether the federal Harbor Maintenance Tax should be imposed on cargo that is brought into Mexican and Canadian ports and then delivered to U.S. destinations by train or truck. The commission began the examination at the request of Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, (both D-Wash.), who voiced concern that ports in Tacoma and Seattle are losing traffic to the Port of Prince Rupert in British Co-lumbia. House members from other port states have also asked the commission to look at the issue.
Importers bringing retail merchan-dise and other cargo into U.S. seaports pay a Harbor Maintenance Tax of 0.125 percent of declared value, averaging $137 per cargo container and amount-ing to more than $1 billion a year. The tax was created in the 1980s to help pay for port projects and maintenance, but NRF and others have expressed con-
cern that most of the money collected has been diverted to other uses or left in reserves while critical infrastructure work goes unfunded.
Shay said retailers have found that to-tal transit times from northern Asia to dis-tribution centers in the U.S. Midwest can be two to three days shorter when using a Canadian port than using West Coast
ports. Faster and more efficient rail ser-vice between Prince Rupert and Chicago play a key role in the advantage, he said. Nonetheless, the comparatively small size of marine terminals at Prince Rupert limit the port’s capacity, and the amount of cargo that goes to either Canadian or Mexican ports is only about 6 percent of the U.S. total, he said.
Shay said NRF believes taxing car-go brought in through Canada or Mex-ico could violate provisions of both the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs enforced by the World Trade Organization.
Kentucky transportation officials closed the Blue Bridge between Spen-cer County, Ind., and Owensboro, Ky., on December 29 for several hours after it was struck by a loose barge, according to the Evansville Courier and Press.
Spokesperson Keith Todd said that at about 2 p.m., strong winds pushed a 10-barge tow into a pier on the Kentucky side of the river, and lines securing the loaded coal barges broke as a result.
The mv. Jincy, operated by Crounse
Corporation of Paducah, Ky., was trav-eling upstream when the incident hap-pened, according to a news release. Ken-tucky State Police were called to close the bridge. An inspector ran a safety check on the bridge’s structure.
Also known as the Glover Cary Bridge, the 71-year-old structure sees an average of 8,500 vehicles cross it per day.
The Jincy is a single-screw, 1,800 hp. boat built in 1979 by St. Louis Ship of St. Louis, Mo.
America’s Central Port, Granite City, Ill., sends its Merry Christmas mes-sage via an e-card, and is making a do-nation to the United Way of Greater St. Louis, Tri-Cities Area Division.
Happy Holidays from the St. Louis River Industry Club.
“May your holidays and new year be filled with JOY” from ES&H, Houma, La.
Holiday Wishes from Steve, Melody, Austin and John Reid Golding, Vicks-burg, Miss.
“Wise Men still seek Him,” is the mes-sage from MariCorp US LLC, Shell Knob, Mo.
Don Grot, Seal Beach, Calif., sends best wishes along with a photo of the Hortense B. Ingram at Marseilles Lock in 1984.
Schooner Bayou ReopensThe Schooner Bayou Control Struc-
ture resumed normal operations Decem-ber 28, the New Orleans Engineer Dis-trict announced. The structure had been closed to all marine traffic due to high salinity levels and low water levels in the Mermentau Basin, the district said.
Towboat Captain MedevacedA Coast Guard helicopter crew mede-
vaced a 40-year-old towboat captain from a towing vessel in the vicinity of Inter-coastal City, La., on December 21.
Coast Guard Sector New Orleans re-ceived the initial report at about 7 p.m. from a crewmember aboard the towing vessel Chris D, who reported that the captain of the vessel was experiencing stroke-like symptoms.
An MH-65C Dolphin helicopter and crew from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans was launched to provide assis-tance. The crew hoisted the man and
transported him to Lafayette Regional Airport, where they were met by Acadian Emergency Medical Services.
“The Coast Guard’s readiness and constant presence on the waterways en-ables fast, flexible response to situations such as this,” said Lt. Clay Cromer, Sec-tor New Orleans command duty officer. “In this case, we had to contend with complications brought on by weather, but still managed to get the ship’s cap-tain the medical attention he needed.” The man’s condition was unknown at press time.
January 2, 2012 THE WATERWAYS JOURNAL SEVEN
Florida Marine’s Newest
6,000 Hp. Boat
The newest towboat in the Florida Ma-rine Transporters fleet, the mv. Louis Develle, (see WJ, December 26) was photographed on its first trip through the Paducah, Ky., area recently. The 6,000 hp. vessel was built by Horizon Shipbuilding. Plans for a christening have not been announced.
—Photo by Jeff L. Yates
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—Port of New Orleans Photo/ Cheryl GerberScott Cooper (right) is sworn in as a Commissioner of the Port of New Orleans by former Port Commissioner David Schulingkamp.
On The Move
Scott Cooper, president of Cres-cent Towing and executive vice presi-dent of Cooper/T.Smith, was sworn in recently as the newest member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. He will serve a five-year term, succeeding Thomas D. West-feldt. Cooper is in the fourth genera-tion of his family to operate the second-largest stevedoring firm in the United States.
Pontchartrain Materials Corporation LLC announced that it has promoted Stephen R. Treuting to president and
Melissa D. Steiner to executive vice president.
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Marinette, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Sign Training ContractHundreds of current and future ship-
builders will be trained in Marinette, Wis., under a contract signed Decem-ber 19 by Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) and Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC).
“At Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, we are committed to meeting the marine manufacturing industry’s need for skilled shipbuilding workers,” said H. Jeffrey Rafn, NWTC president. “We are truly pleased to build on our partner-ship with Marinette Marine and provide additional training opportunities for its workforce.”
Through the two-year agreement, NWTC will provide 130,000 hours of training to MMC new hires and incum-bent workers. Focusing on electricians, shipfitters, welders, and pipefitters, the training will be provided at the NWTC Marinette campus, MMC facilities, and at the new NWTC North Coast Marine Manufacturing Center, which is sched-uled to open February 1 in Marinette. The college has hired a training center coordinator and several more instruc-
tors to work with area marine and general manufacturing employers to address in-cumbent workforce training needs.
The signing marks another major step forward in training the workforce for the growing shipbuilding industry in the Wisconsin/Michigan region. Last fall, changing workforce demographics and skilled worker shortages in nearly all ar-eas of the industry prompted the region’s major marine manufacturers to join to-gether with NWTC and two other high-er educational institutions to form an industry sector partnership, the North Coast Marine Manufacturing Alliance (NCMMA).
“MMC has a high demand for skilled workers, and we are fortunate to have
the opportunity of teaming with NWTC and NCMMA to meet these needs,” said Chuck Goddard, MMC president and chief executive officer.
Working with NCMMA’s shipbuild-ing companies, which collectively employ more than 6,000 people locally, NWTC created marine manufacturing training options beyond incumbent worker train-ing. Designed to create a pipeline of skilled workers, the NWTC Marine Con-struction technical diploma and Marine Engineering Technology associate de-gree programs started this summer and fall at the Green Bay and Marinette cam-puses. Nine students are graduating from the Marine Construction program this month.
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CAPTAIN: Master of Towing Vessels w/ West-ern Rivers and Inland Endorsement. Working a schedule of 28/14. Competitive pay and excellent benefits available. Apply in person M-F 9am-4pm @ 1601 Belle Chasse Hwy Ste. 300 Gretna, LA 70056 or email resume and license to [email protected].
HARRAHS METROPOLIS CASINO & HOTEL is looking for a Chief Engineer with a 2,200 hp rating or above. If interested call Bill Sivori at 618-524-6124.
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PILOTS WANTED: Must have Western Riv-ers and Inland License. Contact Steve Turner at Chem Carriers Towing. 225-642-0060 / [email protected].
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1000 hp, b. ‘75, 65’x24’, 2 GM 16V-71 .................................................................................................$550,000
1125 hp, b. ‘09, 39’x24’, Spider Boat, 3 John Deere 6018, Excellent Condition ...................................$650,000
1450 hp, b. ‘79, 75’x26’, 3 MITSUBISHI S6A3 .....................................................................................$500,000
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Available for Prompt Inspection and Delivery. Most have below deck piplines, deepwell pumps, and diesel engines. Other Barges Available • Trade Restriction: Restricted from Domestic Liquid Cargo Service. Particulars believed
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BARGES FOR RENT: Crane/spud barges, deck barges and sectionals. Contact Newt Marine Service 563-557-1855.
BARGES FOR RENT: J.R. GRAY BARGE RENTALS 985-873-2923. Spud, deck, hopper, shale, sectional, floats.
DECK BARGES FOR SALE: 132 x 32 x 7 and 110 x 30 x 7. Call Steve Woods, 985-517-7753.
FOR CHARTER: 195’X35’ DECK BARGES: Glenn E. Daulton, 573-333-0380.
FOR SALE: (2) Newly Constructed 56’-6” X 28’ Work boat hulls with super structure, designed for 1300 hp w/ 4-man berth and a 26’ eye level. De-signed draft 4’ to 6’. Boats are not outfitted. First boat is available immediately, the second will be ready Jan, 2012. Asking price - $600k each. Call 479-322-1144. E-mail [email protected].
SPUD BARGES FOR LEASE: New ABS Spud Barges available, LA & MS /Gulf Coast. 150 X 54 X 8, 60’ Spuds w/ Tier 3 HPU, Built 2008; 180 X 54 X 12, 80’ Spuds w/ Tier 3 HPU Built 2011; [email protected], 985-380-8246.
TOWBOATS FOR SALE OR RENT: 600, 700, 850, 1000, 1200 HP. 724-457-3031, [email protected].
BoaTs, Barges, eTc. waNTeD—4WANTED: Double Hull Fuel Barge, OPA90 ap-
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FIBER LIFT BARGE TOPS FOR SALE at Mile 437 LMR. Call 601-529-6796 or 769-203-1556.
FOR SALE: Three GM 12V71 Engines; Three 514C Twin Disc gears, 6:1. Call 615-352-6935.
FOR SALE – Two Twin Disc MG 540 Marine Gear Boxes New (Rebuilt), Ratio 7.0:1 SAE 0, S/N 3C3310 BOM 34925, S/N Not Readable BOM 33968, $50,000 each or $90,000 for both. Dave 314-210-8354 or [email protected].
FOR SALE – TUG ENGINES: 3516C’s, 6 units available. Reintjes and Twin Disc Gears. Brand New! Well below market value. Call Ray, 617-875-6905.
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Two Arkansas Bridges To Get TIGER WorkTwo bridges that link Arkansas to Mis-
sissippi will receive high-tech upgrades to improve highway flow between the states as well as barge traffic along the Missis-sippi River as part of a federal grant an-nounced December 15, the Arkansas News reported.
The U.S. Department of Transporta-tion awarded $9.8 million to deploy “In-telligent Transportation Systems” im-provements to the Helena Bridge that carries U.S. 49 and the Greenville Bridge that carries U.S. 82, as well as two other Mississippi River bridges linking Louisi-ana and Mississippi.
The Mississippi River bridge project is designed to improve safe operations of barges and reduce incidents of barge col-lisions with bridge piers. It will include installation of dynamic messaging signs, vehicle detection devices, closed-circuit television and highway advisory radios to reduce travel delays.
The grants are part of $551 million in newly awarded TIGER grants that are heading to 33 states, which Transporta-tion Secretary Ray LaHood announced the same day.
LaHood said the 848 project appli-cations seeking $14.3 billion from DOT far exceeded the $551 million available through the third round of TIGER grants.
“The overwhelming demand for these grants clearly shows that communities across the country can’t afford to wait any longer for Congress to put Americans to work building the transportation projects that are critical to our economic future,” LaHood said.
DOT accelerated the grant review process, enabling LaHood to announce the awards ahead of a planned spring 2012 announcement. TIGER grants are awarded to transportation projects that have a significant national or regional im-pact, according to DOT.
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Rare Corps Of Engineers River Photos Appraised at $4.5 MillionSotheby’s, the international auction
house, has appraised a rare collection of 137 photos of the Mississippi River in the 1880s taken by a Corps of Engineers sur-veyor and draftsman at $4.5 million, the Minneapolis/St. Paul StarTribune report-ed December 27.
The bound volume of oval cyano-type photos was taken by Henry Pe-ter Bosse, who worked for the Corps photographing and charting the river during a time when it was being trans-formed by locks and dams from a wild river punctuated by rapids to a busy ar-tery of commerce. It rested apparently unused in the desk drawer of a working dredge, the William A. Thompson, for 50 years, before the Corps secured it in the vault of the U.S. Bank in downtown St. Paul, Minn.
Ancestor Fought Napoleon
Born in 1844, Bosse was a classically educated immigrant from Prussia whose grandfather, Count August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, was a famous gener-al who had helped defeat Napoleon at
Waterloo. (The Nazi government was later to name a World War II battle-ship after his grandfather.) Bosse got an excellent German education in art, en-gineering and music before coming to North America in his 20s. He eventu-ally found work with the Corps of Engi-neers in St. Paul, with whom he stayed about four years.
Using a large 11- by 14-inch camera and long exposures, Bosse documented the Upper Mississippi’s change from a region of wagon trains and Indians to one of railroad bridges and burgeoning cities.
Other Copies Exist
Bosse’s surviving photo albums gained renewed attention when an an-tique dealer sold one for $66,000 in 1990. Other albums were tracked by John Afinson, a river historian with the U.S. National Park Service. One is owned by the National Mississip-pi River Museum & Aquarium at the Port of Dubuque, Iowa, according to the StarTribune; another by the Mayo
Clinic. Another was owned by the Rock Island Engineer District—until it was apparently checked out before its value became known. The Rock Is-land District also had a complete set of Bosse’s glass negatives—but all but six were broken during an office move.
One album had been donated to the Dredge William A. Thompson at its 1937 christening, where it apparently sat un-used in the captain’s desk for 50 years, accounting for its good condition. Ken-ton Spading, a hydrologic engineer with the St. Paul District, said the photos were in remarkable shape “considering they bounced around on a dredge for more than 50 years.”
The Corps plans to lend the album to the Minnesota Historical Society to be conserved in a climate-controlled en-
vironment. (It was the Society that re-quired the Sotheby’s appraisal.)
Photographer To Retrace Steps
Bosse’s story has a postscript. Chris Faust, a nationally known photographer based in St. Paul who was asked by the Corps to digitize some of Bosse’s pho-tos beginning in 1990, plans to retrace Bosse’s steps to take photographs at 60 of the same spots—at least as closely as possible (some have been submerged by dams and locks). He wants to develop the “then and now” photos into a museum ex-hibit and book.
Faust hopes to raise enough money from state and federal grants to rent a boat in the spring of 2012. He said he is being helped by a retired towboat captain.
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This Week(From back issues of the WJ)
TEN YEARS AGO, three barges were damaged when a tow was
swept from St. Rose, La., onto Gnots Reserve Inc. fleet, Mile 119 LMR; and the Corps of Engineers began a survey from Head of Passes to Black Hawk to update its Mississippi River Hydrographic Survey Book.
TWENTY YEARS AGO, a 473-foot drydock at Bender Ship-
building & Repair Company in Mo-bile, Ala., was struck and damaged by a turning ship; Terrence McDonald and Mid America Port Inc. applied to the Tulsa Engineer District to build a barge repair facility on the Verdi-gris River near the Port of Catoosa; and heavy rains and flooding limit-ed tow sizes in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
THIRTY YEARS AGO, the Great America finished installing its “ex-
perimental” S.E.M.T.-Pielstick heavy-oil engines; Harcon Barge Company dedicated a new multimillion-dollar headquarters building in Paducah, Ky.; and Drew Chemical formed Drew Ma-rine Services in New Orleans, offering water, fuel and evaporator treatment programs for diesel engines.
FORTY YEARS AGO, fire de-stroyed a grain elevator owned
by Victoria Elevator Exchange Com-pany at Winona, Minn.; a tow hit the Southern Pacific bridge at Morgan City, La., knocking one span off its support piers; and two jumbo loaded coal barges sank in the upper Ohio River at Dam 16.
FIFTY YEARS AGO, Todd Ship-yard Corporation’s Houston Di-
vision finished five chemical barges for four Pittsburgh customers; Capt. James Grover died from an apparent heart attack in Paducah, Ky.; and the U.S. Engineers said benefits of the proposed Tennessee-Tombigbee Wa-terway would exceed costs by a ratio of 1.8 to 1.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Capt. Walter Wisherd resigned
from the Streckfus Line; James Mc-Connell, builder of early Ohio Riv-er steamboats, died in Parkersburg, W.Va.; and the Stacker Lee delayed leaving Memphis, Tenn., for a day due to a cold snap.
Ice On The Ohio
In this picture, we see the Princess being ground to pieces by an ice gorge at Carrollton, Ky. The big sidewheeler Is-land Queen is jammed against the Indiana shore. Later, it drifted 10 miles to Madison, Ind., where it was saved.
By Alan L. BatesOn the Upper Mississippi, mariners
indulgently chuckle about ice in the Ohio River. The fact is, they’re used to it in those arctic climes and have all sorts of ice harbors, coves and locks to escape it. The Ohio is not so well-endowed. This is not to say the Ohio never freezes—far from it. The big difference is that the Ohio is not set up for ice. Oh, there are a few ice piers, a number of creeks and rivers from the south and the two-mile-long Louisville and Portland Canal where some equipment may ride out the moving floes, but by and large, floating property must sit and take it.
It doesn’t happen every year like the heavy glazed chunks so common on the Upper Miss, but when the Ohio freez-es it is fully as capable of costly impu-dence. In general, the ice is thinner and never stops its push to the south. Floes two inches thick can literally saw through wood. When a large sheet
of ice hits an obstacle, it rises in piles and keeps rising until it sinks vessels by sheer weight.
The worst ice stoppage on the Ohio occurred in the mid-1850s, when the river froze over and remained closed for 57 days. But the most damage of all time happened during the winter of 1917–18. Wood was still the dominant hull materi-al of choice. The thin ice literally sawed-off hulls at the waterlines. It piled up on main decks and either sank the boat or crushed the upper structure. Big chunks sank the packets DeSoto and Georgia Brown at Memphis. The mouth of the Tennessee River, called the duck’s nest, was seldom frozen, but during that cat-astrophic winter it, too, froze and took six packets and excursion boats to the bottom. The Helen E, a little day-pack-et, broke out of the Kanawha and float-ed to Madison, Ind., unhurt. The Prin-cess, a Coney Island excursion boat, was crushed in the mouth of the Kentucky
River while the first Island Queen, tied alongside, sailed itself from Carroll-ton, Ky., to Madison, Ind., with minimal damage. The Ed Meyer sank at Helena, Ark., the farthest south the floes extend-ed. In all, 36 boats of every class were destroyed or sunk.
The latest “big” ice on the Ohio oc-curred in December 1979, and the fol-lowing January. We were tending to a floating drydock at the time. Three-inch-thick ice slabs shaved their way onto the deck until there was a pile of them taller than a man. The Louisville and Portland Canal was full of boats. By careful manip-ulation of the dams, the U.S. Engineers were able to keep the ice moving and there were no gorges.
Although 1979 was 33 years ago and the Ohio has not closed since then, a re-ally cruel winter like that of 1917–18 can still happen and can cause rivermen from owners to deckhands a lot of grief along the Ohio River.
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