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(See also Coast Guard news items on the Wheelhouse Report Coast Guard page, updated 23 July 2008.)


Mississippi closed near Hamburg
The US Coast Guard on Wednesday closed the Mississippi River about 15 miles above Winfield MO following the grounding of a 15-barge tow.
The Telegraph (IL), 13 August 2008

Unexperienced towboat pilot involved in Harvey firm's earlier sinking
The Harvey towing firm involved in last week's Mississippi River oil spill staffed a towboat that sank 11 days earlier with an inexperienced pilot who didn't have a required master's license.
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 28 July 2008

Coast Guard allows limited opening of Mississippi River after massive oil spill
The US Coast Guard has allowed a limited reopening of the Mississippi River today, two days after a barge spilled more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the waterway and forced authorities to shut the river from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 25 July 2008

Coast Guard: Nobody properly licensed on tug
The US Coast Guard says no one was properly licensed aboard a tugboat that hit a tanker early Wednesday, resulting in a major oil spill on the Mississippi River.
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 23 July 2008

Coast Guard routes river traffic around sunken tug
A 56-foot tugboat sank in the Lower Mississippi River near Westwego LA early Sunday, but no injuries were reported.
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 13 July 2008

2 Mississippi River locks reopen
The last of the Mississippi River navigation locks that were closed to barge traffic because of flooding have reopened.
Chicago Tribune, 05 July 2008

Crumbling locks, dams could cause catastrophe

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 04 July 2008

Ship pilot to retire as probe into crash continues
The pilot at the helm of the container ship Cosco Busan when it struck a bridge support tower in the San Francisco Bay last year has decided to retire rather than testify in an upcoming hearing on his conduct.
San Francisco Chronicle, 01 July 2008

Mississippi slowly opens to barge traffic
The US Army Corps of Engineers expects to open the Mississippi River to barge traffic as far south as Keokuk, Iowa, by this weekend, but that will not clear the logjam of barges stranded by floodwaters.
Quad-City Times, 30 June 2008

Mississippi flooding closes St. Louis to barges
Flooding on the Mississippi River has closed the St. Louis harbor to barge traffic.
Reuters, 30 June 2008

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