Inland freight has long been a market people learn by listening. Dispatchers call brokers. Traders call terminals. Operators compare notes. The picture forms through conversations more than measuremen ...

Q: Why do I see so many tugboats pushing barges rather than towing them? A: In terms of power and water resistance, it is more efficient to push rather than pull a barge. But a lot depends on where it ...

Barges carried 129,900 tons of grain down the Mississippi River during the week ending Sept. 16, 25% less than the week before, 38% less than during the same period last year, and 76% less than the ...

A barge carrying about 3,600 tons of grain took on water over the weekend just south of Kalama in the Columbia River. (Photo contributed by Claralee Brannan) A barge carrying about 3,600 tons of grain ...

Water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are likely to reach critically low stages soon, forcing shippers to light-load harvest-season grain barges for the fourth year in a row.

Dredging efforts over the past few weeks are expected to begin easing access for larger vessels and tows pushing heavier barge loads to make it through Montgomery Point Lock and Dam, the first point ...

In a normal year, a 10,000-horsepower towboat on portions of the lower Mississippi might push as many as 42 barges at once. During the critically low water last year, that same boat could only push ...

SAO PAULO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Some grain shipments on rivers in Northern Brazil have been halted due to a drought that has sent Amazon river tributaries to the lowest level in over a century, ...

Year-over-year, Susan Olson says there are few interesting updates comparing how the Mississippi River is being used for grain transport. Most surprising to her is according to USDA data there was a 3 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops and ...