Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A fishing boat capsized after colliding with a sand barge in waters off South Korea’s southeastern coast early Monday, leaving seven crew members dead and one missing, ...

A split hopper barge looks like a catastrophic failure when its hull opens down the middle, but it is actually a precise engineering solution for moving massive volumes of sand at sea. This breaks ...