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At a FreightWeekSTL panel, the Army Corps of Engineers and Kaskaskia Regional Port District described operational changes that kept the Jerry F. Costello Lock and Dam open 17 days longer than typical during the 2019 flooding.
The Kaskaskia River moves about 1.5 million tons per year, mainly steel and scrubber stone inbound and grain outbound.
The story describes past flood-season operations and a modest regional volume, so it has little bearing on current grain freight or prices.
ibjonline.comMay 19, 2020Not 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.
