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Kentucky is awarding $15.1 million to 15 riverport projects, with the largest grants going to Paducah, Hickman and Eddyville. Funding covers conveyor replacement, warehouse rebuilds, barge-staging capacity and equipment upgrades under the KPRCM program, which requires no local match.
Upgraded riverport capacity can ease bottlenecks for grain and feed moving by barge on the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, a modest positive for regional freight efficiency with little direct price effect.
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