The crew of a towboat was forced to abandon ship after their vessel caught on fire while pushing barges on the lower Mississippi River near Greenville, Mississippi on Wednesday. Coast...

The push for liquified natural gas as a marine fuel across a multitude of vessel types continues with the "Approval in Principle" of an LNG-powered inland towboat for the domestic U.S. market.

The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to the reported sinking of a towing vessel early Thursday morning in the upper Mississippi River near Chester, Illinois, southeast of St. Louis. Watchstanders...