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On August 17, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted the federal permit authorizing construction of the Louisiana International Terminal at Violet in St. Bernard Parish, on the Lower Mississippi River downriver from New Orleans. The permit clears the last major regulatory hurdle for what Port NOLA describes as the only new greenfield container port currently under development in the United States. Construction is expected to take five years. The projected investment is roug

Ten years after it took effect, Subchapter M is no longer a new regulation. It is the operating framework for the entire U.S. towing industry, and the phase-in that occupied everyone's attention between 2016 and 2022 is long finished. What has replaced it is a renewal cycle, and that cycle is producing a specific set of problems right now for operators who obtained their first Certificate of Inspection early. Requirements that were deferred for five years are coming due, and