The number of inland tank barge deliveries during the first half of 2019 are up 52% over same time last year deliveries, according to River Transport News.
RTN’s mid-year survey of new inland tank barge delivery activity shows “the inland barge industry operating on the Mississippi River System and its connecting waterways took delivery of 50 new inland tank barges during the first six months of 2019.”
For the first six months of 2018, 33 tank barges were delivered. So the 2019 total of 50 is a...
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