# Future Launch of Container-on-Vessel Service to the Midwest

> American Patriot Container Transport is preparing to launch a container-on-vessel service linking St. Louis to the lower Mississippi and on to global destinations. The service uses a new Gulf Coast gateway terminal in Plaquemines Parish and purpose-built vessels.

- Date: 2022-06-02 · published 2022-06-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/41128-future-launch-of-container-on-vessel-service-to-the-midwest
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md), [Ocean Grain Freight](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OCEANFRT.md)

## Why it matters

Lower-cost all-water container routing could modestly ease Midwest export logistics for shippers. Any effect on feed grain freight costs would be gradual and minor.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: neutral
- OCEANFRT: neutral

## Sources

- globaltrademag.com: https://www.globaltrademag.com/focusing-on-the-site-in-herculaneum-missouri-just-south-of-st-louis-missouri-he-said-they-have-a-development-agreement-with-fred/

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