# Forum Highlights Strengths, Needs On Waterways - The Waterways Journal

> At the Marine Finance Forum in New Orleans, Waterways Council president Tracy Zea discussed aging US locks and dams, with 80 percent past their 50-year design life. About $113 million of the $2.5 billion inland waterway funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act remains to be allocated.

- Date: 2023-12-08 · published 2023-12-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/32913-forum-highlights-strengths-needs-on-waterways-the-waterways-journal
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Aging locks and infrastructure backlogs raise the risk of outages that disrupt grain barge movements, a long-term cost factor for grain basis.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: bullish ▲

## Sources

- waterwaysjournal.net: https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2023/12/08/forum-highlights-strengths-needs-on-waterways/

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