Press Releases

The Arkansas Port, Intermodal, and Waterway Development Grant Program provides financial assistance to port authorities and intermodal authorities for the purpose of funding port development projects. The goals of the program are to provide public funds to build land-side infrastructure and to dredge ports and waterways. Funding this infrastructure will provide jobs and competitive transportation […]

Notice of Rulemaking The Arkansas Department of Commerce, Division of Arkansas Waterways Commission hereby issue the following proposed amendments to its Rules pursuant to its authority under Ark. Code Ann. § 15-23-205. The Board is updating its grant rules to provide that required cost estimates accompanying grant applications should come from a certified engineer, construction

LITTLE ROCK, AR (August 29, 2018) — The Arkansas Waterways Commission’s Arkansas Port, Intermodal, and Waterway Development Grant Program benefits the public ports by reinvesting the ad valorem tax paid by industries on the value of the barges utilizing Arkansas’ navigable waterways. This grant provides funds for public ports and intermodal authorities to make capital

LITTLE ROCK, AR (March 9, 2018) — Ouachita River representative Craig Mobley of El Dorado has recently been appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson to the Arkansas Waterways Commission. An avid outdoorsman and a native of Warren, Craig and his wife J.P. moved to El Dorado in 2013. They have two children, Millee (13) and Max

LITTLE ROCK, AR (October 11, 2017) — The Arkansas Waterways Commission’s Arkansas Port, Intermodal, and Waterway Development Grant Program benefits the public ports by reinvesting the ad valorem tax paid by industries on the value of the commodities shipped utilizing Arkansas’ navigable waterways. This grant provides funds for public ports and intermodal authorities to make

LITTLE ROCK, AR (February 2, 2015): A study to protect navigation on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System is included in President Obama’s Fiscal 2016 Budget for the Army’s Civil Works program. At a press conference today in Washington, D.C., the Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and Lt. Gen.