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 week of October, a period when…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-gulf-grain-exports-slowed-by-low-mississippi-river/
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 week of October, a period when…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-gulf-grain-exports-slowed-by-low-mississippi-river/
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 waterway reopened on Sunday. Low…
https://gcaptain.com/mississippi-river-barge-backup-eases-as-closures-reopen/
By Sophie Caronello (Bloomberg) Prolonged drought is jeopardizing waterborne trade along the Mississippi River, a basin that produces 92% of the nation’s agricultural exports. As of Friday, the river was still closed…
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 to beat the start of winter…
https://gcaptain.com/grain-shippers-facing-mississippi-river-drought-race-against-winter/
By Elizabeth Elkin, Will Wade and Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The Mississippi River is a vital US waterway that ferries key commodities between the heart of America and the Gulf Coast…
https://gcaptain.com/mississippi-river-drought-imperils-trade-heres-why/
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, about 200 miles north…
https://gcaptain.com/coast-guard-dredging-underway-to-reopen-section-of-lower-mississippi-river/
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Ingram Barge Company, one of the country’s largest barge shippers, said Thursday it was “providing formal notice of a force majeure event” as low water on the Mississippi River…
https://gcaptain.com/ingram-barge-declares-force-majeure-due-to-low-water-on-mississippi/
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 on Tuesday…
https://gcaptain.com/coast-guard-barge-groundings-increasing-on-parched-lower-mississippi-river/
By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Commercial barge traffic on southern stretches of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Tuesday as low water levels halted shipments of grain,…
https://gcaptain.com/mississippi-river-barge-backlog-swells-as-water-levels-shrink/