Barge Operators Boost Mississippi Cargo as River Deepens
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Emergency work to deepen the Mississippi River shipping channel will avert a shutdown of barge traffic this month, lawmakers said as operators began increasing their cargo loads on the nation’s busiest waterway.
“We’re back, moving up here,” Martin Hettel, senior manager of bulk sales for AEP River Operations LLC of St. Louis, said today in an interview in Thebes, Illinois, where rock obstacles threatened to jam traffic on the river.