Surging water from the Mississippi River led to a 2023 barge strike on a gate at Algiers Lock in New Orleans, according to a ...
South of St. Louis, parts of the Mississippi River are so low from weeks of drought that barge traffic is being limited. “As if agricultural shippers did not have enough supply chain challenges ...
The NTSB found the surge was likely due to wake effects from deep draft ships transiting the Mississippi River adjacent to ...
Flood predictions for the Mississippi River have been revised again ... If the lock and dams are closing to the barge traffic, that’s commercial traffic, recreational traffic is probably ...
Low water levels on the Mississippi River are of particular concern in ... between Minneapolis St. Paul and St. Louis.” Slowing barge traffic is already having an impact on cash grain prices ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released its 2024 navigational statistics for the St. Paul district, which paints a picture of how much boat traffic the Upper Mississippi River saw in 2024, and ...
As has happened with the mighty Paraná River in the heartland ... now has come the turn of the Mississippi with insufficient draft for the vessels and barges involved in transporting US grains.