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The Corps of Engineers Baltimore District supports efforts to clear wreckage from the Potomac River. The Coast Guard and Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving are working closely on recovery and salvage operations. U.S. Army photo/Jeremy Todd.

Salvage operations begin at Potomac River crash site

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St. Johns Ship Building photo.

St. Johns to build spud barge for Hal Jones

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The Hudson River Estuary PORTS® station at Turkey Point, New York in January 2025. Sarah Fernald, NYSDEC photo.

NOAA expands real-time monitoring on Hudson River

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Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks during a press briefing about the Jan. 29 air crash in the Potomac River. NTSB member Todd Inman, left, is the lead spokesman for investigators. NTSB video image.

Search ongoing for bodies, flight data recorders

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Floating nuclear power plant for use at U.S. ports. CORE POWER rendering

CORE POWER, Glosten team up to bring floating nuclear power plant to US ports

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Past WorkBoat Covers January 1965, 1975, 1985.

WorkBoat Looks Back: January 1965, 1975, 1985

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President Donald Trump's Jan. 20 executive order directs the Department of Interior to begin a process for renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on government maps and documents. Shutterstock photo.

Trump moves to formalize ‘Gulf of America’

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U.S. Marshals overlooking New Orleans. Shutterstock photo.

Defeating your safety plan

Ken Hocke

Right whales on the surface between Hudson and Block Canyons 40 to 70 miles south of Long Island, N.Y., photographed by the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life aerial survey. New England Aquarium photo/NMFS permit # 25739.

Feds drop proposed boat speed limits to protect whales

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TDOT's newest ferry boat, the M/V Summitt, alongside the deck barge Volunteer. All images provided by TDOT.

McGinnis delivers new Tennessee River ferry boat

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Lake Carriers’ Association photo.

Lakes iron ore trade beats five-year average

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America’s River Roots (Formerly called Tall Stacks) is scheduled for Oct. 8-12, 2025, in Cincinnati. America’s River Roots photo.

Celebrating our inland rivers heritage

Capt. Alan Bernstein

The Mr. Brian is the sixth ASD tractor tug built for Bisso Towboat in the past nine years by Main Iron Works. In fact, all 10 of the company's tractor tugs were built at the shipyard. Bisso Towboat photo.

On board Bisso Towboat’s newest tractor tug Mr. Brian

Ken Hocke