# I Wanna Tell You A Story: barge traffic

> American River Transportation Company filed a permit to build a barge fleeting area at Mile 973.5 near Cache Island, Ky., designed to hold 84 empty or loaded hopper and tank barges. The public notice runs until May 19.

- Date: 2020-04-30 · published 2020-04-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/53514-i-wanna-tell-you-a-story-barge-traffic
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Added fleeting capacity near the Ohio-Mississippi confluence could ease barge staging bottlenecks for grain, though the effect on freight prices is small and not yet approved.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: neutral

## Sources

- arezzanetwork.blogspot.com: https://arezzanetwork.blogspot.com/search/label/barge%20traffic

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