Advocates for restoring the Ocklawaha River are undeterred by a recent veto setback and are moving ahead and regrouping to ...

A well-known commercial operator has sold his three barges – marking the beginning of the end of a family firm that has ...

After nearly a century of local ownership, New Orleans-based Canal Barge Company will be acquired later this year by a ...

The whole concept of barge cruising centers on slow travel and simplicity—and that’s what L’Art de Vivre delivered in spades.

The whole concept of barge cruising centers on slow travel and simplicity—and that’s what L’Art de Vivre delivered in spades. The barge floated along the canal at a leisurely four miles per ...

The captain and his sons would walk along the path with the mules and help open the locks, because you needed three people to get through a lock, VanDreason said. Women did laundry on top and bartered ...

The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a multi-vessel incident on the Lower Mississippi River late Sunday night, April 27, that resulted in a sunken barge and a temporary waterway closure near mile marker ...

The first Liffey barges were steam-operated and these early barges were all named after rivers around Ireland i.e Lagan, Shannon, Slaney, Foyle, Moy. In 1919 Guinness introduced a new type of ...

Canal Barge has grown from a single barge in 1933 to now a fleet of over 900 tank, hopper, and deck barges, 50 towboats, a state-of-the-art liquid bulk terminal, and the largest independent towing and ...

Barge travel has two speeds: slow (about 4 miles per hour) and…stop. In Burgundy, barge rides are punctuated by a lock every mile or so, allowing boats to gently "climb," step by step, over the ...