New Orleans-based Canal Barge Company, Inc. has received a Federal Ship Financing Program (commonly known as “Title XI”) loan guarantee amount of $51,458,000 over 25 years for three new ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

Why are over 2,000 people watching a live feed of murky water in a canal somewhere in the Netherlands? To ring the visdeurbel, of course. As it has since 2021, the Dutch city of Utrecht’s annual ...