Sean Duffy has been waiting since 2012 for a critical development in a plan to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel to 50 feet. The wait ended on Friday with a partnership agreement from the state of Louisiana that authorizes the $250 million project to move forward.
“Having the state agreement is huge,” Duffy, executive director of the Big River Coalition, told FreightWaves. “We’ve been working with the state on this for eight years. They’ve told us the money was going to be there and that...