On this episode of What's Going on With Shipping, Sal Mercogliano - Chair of the Department of History, Criminal Justice and Political Science at Campbell University, former merchant mariner, and adjunct professor of Maritime Industry Policy at the US Merchant Marine Academy - discusses the landfall of Hurricane IDA along the coast of Louisiana on August 29, 2021 and its potential impact on Shipping, the oil industry, shipbuilding/shipyards, closure of the Mississippi River/inland waterways, and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Platform (LOOP).