Users Board News Today

Vital infrastructure repairs are losing the fight against inflation, but waterways leaders are strategizing to maintain funding.

The Inland Waterways Users Board and Corps officials discussed changes to the Capital Investment Strategy for future infrastructure spending.

Workers completed the first of seven concrete pours April 11 as part of the project to repair Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River.

The Waterways Journal takes its annual look back at the major events that made news on the waterways in the last year.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is studying the possibility of remotely operating navigation locks on the inland waterways.

Supply chain issues, inflation and war have introduced uncertainty into plans for investing all that IIJA money we have been celebrating.

The Corps of Engineers told the Inland Waterways Users Board that completion of the Kentucky Lock Project is being delayed by three years.

With infrastructure top of mind for everyone, the Department of Defense must recognize the urgency of getting the Inland Waterways Users Board back to work. 

by Yanis Iqbal / December 11th, 2020 Farm workers in various regions of Peru- such as Ica, Viru La Libertad and Piurahad – went on a strike in the first week of December, 2020, blocking the strategic Pan-American motorway to demand wage increases, basic social security benefits and the repeal of the decades-old Agrarian Promotion Law, enacted in 2000, as a mechanism to bolster the bourgeoisie’s power in the agro-export sector. The law benefits agro-export corporations in two ways. Firstly, ...