inland shipping

Houston-based Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX) on Monday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire inland tank barge shipping company Higman

By Karl Plume Dec 7 (Reuters) – A stretch of the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky, was closed to shipping traffic after a barge tow ran aground in the

Photography by Brian Snyder. Reporting by Chris Kenning (Reuters) In the 29 years that towboat captain Joe Gray has worked flotillas of barges up and down the

by Karl Plume (Reuters) ABOARD THE OLIVER C. SHEARER, Ohio River – America’s worst traffic jam this fall occurred on the Ohio River, where a line

by Karl Plume (Reuters) – The lower Ohio River was closed to navigation on Tuesday at locks and dam 52 in Paducah, Kentucky, due to rising

By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Oct 2 (Reuters) – U.S. farmers are running out of options for their just-harvested corn and soybeans as delays on the

By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The Ohio River was closed to commercial navigation on Monday near Brookport, Illinois, after a hydraulic

By Karl Plume April 7 (Reuters) – Two separate barge accidents halted navigation on the flood-swollen Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers on Friday,

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday responded to a report of a breakaway barges at the Racine Lock and Dam on the Ohio River near Huntington, West Virginia. Coast

By Karl Plume and Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, Feb 23 (Reuters) – A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New

BUDAPEST, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Hungary and Bulgaria have banned shipping on the Danube as the river is freezing over and floating ice poses a risk.

  HAMBURG, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Low water levels persist on the Rhine and Danube in Germany and cargo vessels cannot sail fully loaded on the German

Flooding halted barge traffic on the Illinois River on Wednesday and high water levels prompted futures market operator CME Group Inc to declare force majeure

Houston-based Kirby Corporation announced this week plans to construct an additional 29 tank barges totaling more than 850,000 barrels of new capacity to be

Icy waters on the Illinois River brought barge traffic to a virtual halt this week, slowing transportation of grains and other raw materials to export

Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — Confronted by Tea Party Republicans who question every dollar the U.S. government spends, Michael Toohey is turning to the most

HAMBURG, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Cargo shipping on various rivers and canals in Germany was again disrupted on Thursday, German inland navigation agency WSA