What began as a mechanical failure has spiraled into a damaging cargo loss of over 180 containers for Trailer Bridge.

The operators of Louisiana's five deepwater ports on the lower Mississippi River have known for years that the region needed investment to stop bleeding container shipping market share to Gulf rivals.

ALTON, Ill. — Two people were killed when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois, north of St. Louis. The helicopter hit transmission lines over the Mississippi ...

NEW ORLEANS — High river levels caused six barges to break loose, one barge to sink, and halted river traffic near New Orleans Sunday night, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. There were no reported ...

FILE PHOTO: Commerce travels on the Mississippi River, seen from the McKinley Bridge looking south in 2013 as the Municipal River Terminal completed a $19.5 million upgrade. Photo by Robert Cohen, ...

The local First Nation in the vicinity of a sinking barge off the central British Columbia coast says some cargo containers ...

A barge sank after it crashed into a bridge over the Mississippi River in Vicksburg.The tow of the barge crashed into the old Highway 80 railroad bridge Thursday.David Day, with the Vicksburg Daily ...

The helicopter collided with power lines and subsequently crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River and experienced a post-crash fire, said the NTSB Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at ...

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio — The U.S. Coast Guard says two people were rescued after a construction barge overturned and capsized in the waters of Lake Erie near Rocky River Park on Tuesday. Military officials ...