# Costs Escalate for Barge Freight | Red River Farm Network

> Barge offers on the Mississippi between Memphis and Cairo were quoted at 750 percent of tariff on September 15, up from 650 percent on September 20 per the report. Delays unloading barges at the Gulf have created a shortage of empty barges needed upriver for the harvest.

- Date: 2021-09-17 · published 2021-09-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/45241-costs-escalate-for-barge-freight-red-river-farm-network
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

A shortage of empty barges during harvest pushes up river freight, which lowers net prices for upriver grain and supports Gulf export basis dynamics.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: bullish ▲

## Sources

- rrfn.com: https://www.rrfn.com/2021/09/17/costs-escalate-for-barge-freight/

---
Data from Feedsoft AI (https://feedsoft.ai/). For information only; not investment advice.