WASHINGTON - The government is stepping up efforts to unload Mississippi River barges carrying crops damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The Agriculture Department plans to spend $7.6 million for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is stepping up efforts to unload hundreds of Mississippi River barges carrying crops damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The Agriculture Department plans to spend $7.6 ...

Port Manchac could serve as a low-cost facility for unloading crude oil from trains and transferring it to barges headed for area refineries, a study shows. Patrick Dufresne, executive director/CEO of ...

CHICAGO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - American Commercial Lines Inc has dropped a recent increase in demurrage charges on grain barges because customers refused to buy at the higher prices, barge and grain ...

Low water levels on the Mississippi River, a result of dryness across the Midwest and South, are reducing the ability for barges to effectively navigate, driving up farmers’ transportation costs as ...

RED WING, Minn. - Red Wing Grain has completed building one of the largest grain bins in Minnesota, just off U.S. 61 north of town. Red Wing Grain's new bin will hold 1.3 million bushels of grain when ...