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Marquette Transportation's Gary Frayser spoke to the west Kentucky chapter of Women in Maritime Operations on January 27 about how weather and river stages affect navigation. He explained that the system needs rain roughly every two weeks and that barge loads depend on water depth.
Weather-driven river levels set how deeply barges can load, which directly affects freight rates and grain transport costs. The session is educational, with no new supply shock.
waterwaysjournal.netShelley ByrneFeb 4, 2023Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
