Freight Rates Surge As Mississippi River Water Levels Drop
By Tarso Veloso (Bloomberg) –The cost to transport America’s harvest from the Midwest to the rest of the world is soaring as shrinking water
gCaptain’s full coverage of the 2022 Mississippi River drought that is impacting shipping during peak harvest season.
By Tarso Veloso (Bloomberg) –The cost to transport America’s harvest from the Midwest to the rest of the world is soaring as shrinking water
By Brian K Sullivan (Bloomberg) — Water levels on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers are falling for a second straight year, raising the prospect of
By Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The shrinking Mississippi River has hobbled the most efficient channel for moving US soybeans onto world markets,
The world’s rivers are evaporating and this could be devastating for our food supply, our cities, and our transportation. Inland barges are ten times
By Kim Chipman (Bloomberg) –“Serious concerns” over critically low water levels in the Mississippi River system led port authorities to limit vessel
By Karl Plume Oct 20 (Reuters) – Low water levels on the Mississippi River are likely to persist this winter as drier-than-normal weather is
By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — A drought is spreading across the US Midwest, drying up the Mississippi River and its tributaries that serve as a
By Brian K. Sullivan, Joe Deaux and Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The Mississippi River isn’t out of the woods as falling water levels along its major
By Karl Plume Oct 11 (Reuters) – U.S. crop exports at Louisiana Gulf Coast terminals were at their lowest level in nine years for the first
By Victoria Cavaliere (Bloomberg) — A backup of more than 2,000 boats and barges on the Mississippi River is being cleared as two closures along the
By Sophie Caronello (Bloomberg) Prolonged drought is jeopardizing waterborne trade along the Mississippi River, a basin that produces 92% of the
By Joe Deaux, Michael Hirtzer and Kim Chipman (Bloomberg) Shippers struggling to move grains and fertilizer along a dried-up Mississippi River are also racing
By Elizabeth Elkin, Will Wade and Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The Mississippi River is a vital US waterway that ferries key commodities between the
The U.S. Coast Guard has closed a section of the Lower Mississippi River for dredging. The river is closed near Stack Island, near Lake Providence, Louisiana,
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Ingram Barge Company, one of the country’s largest barge shippers, said Thursday it was “providing formal
The U.S. Coast Guard says it is responding to an increasing number of barge groundings due to low water levels in the Lower Mississippi River. The Coast Guard
By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Commercial barge traffic on southern stretches of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Tuesday
By Kim Chipman, Dominic Carey and Elizabeth Elkin (Bloomberg) — American farmers are facing yet another supply-chain headache just as harvest season
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