# Lack of Funding for U.S. Internal Waterways System Threatens to Damage Agricultural Production and Shipping - FreightWaves

> A FreightWaves report says aging US inland waterways are losing capacity for bulk shipping, with infrastructure funding stalled in Congress. An Agribusiness Intelligence study estimates the lack of investment could cost over $72 billion in GDP over 25 years.

- Date: 2019-09-30 · published 2019-09-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/57252-lack-of-funding-for-u-s-internal-waterways-system-threatens-to-damage
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Deteriorating waterway capacity over the long run raises barge costs and reduces competitiveness of US grain exports against Brazil and Argentina.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bearish ▼
- CORN: bearish ▼
- BARGE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SOY | 2024-10-01 | [Trade Policy Shifts and Their Potential Implications for U.S. Agricultural Exports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/14723-trade-policy-shifts-and-their-potential-implications-for-u-s-agricultural.md) | -2.2% | -7.9% |
| SOY | 2023-04-20 | [EU Regulation on deforestation-free products: What comes next for importers / exporters of agricultural commodities? \| BLOMSTEIN](https://feedsoft.ai/events/36440-eu-regulation-on-deforestation-free-products-what-comes-next-for-importers.md) | -4.7% | -11.3% |
| SOY | 2017-06-09 | [Industry Seeks to Quash Trump Idea of Shifting Inland Waterways Funding to Tolls](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70680-industry-seeks-to-quash-trump-idea-of-shifting-inland-waterways-funding-to-tolls.md) | -0.3% | +6.2% |
| SOY | 2017-05-04 | [Drawing out links between the Common Agricultural Policy, soy, and deforestation in South America - Fern](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71038-drawing-out-links-between-the-common-agricultural-policy-soy-and-deforestation.md) | -0.4% | -5.5% |
| SOY | 2018-06-04 | [Argentina: Argentina’s Delay of Soybean Export Tax Reduction Unlikely \| USDA Foreign Agricultural Service](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64370-argentina-argentina-s-delay-of-soybean-export-tax-reduction-unlikely-usda.md) | -5.1% | -15.9% |
| CORN | 2024-07-11 | [Corn Was King: The Transition to Soy in U.S. Production Agriculture - Center for Commercial Agriculture](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15197-corn-was-king-the-transition-to-soy-in-u-s-production-agriculture-center-for.md) | -0.9% | -1.6% |
| CORN | 2024-10-01 | [Trade Policy Shifts and Their Potential Implications for U.S. Agricultural Exports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/14723-trade-policy-shifts-and-their-potential-implications-for-u-s-agricultural.md) | +0.2% | -2.4% |
| CORN | 2025-02-20 | [Corn Markets Under Pressure – Profit-Taking and Argentina’s Export Tax Cut Weigh on Prices - Commodity Board Europe is an independent commodity market intelligence platform providing global production data, price insights and market analysis for agricultural and food commodities.](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6195-corn-markets-under-pressure-profit-taking-and-argentina-s-export-tax-cut-weigh.md) | -5.1% | -2.4% |

## Sources

- freightwaves.com: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/lack-of-funding-for-u-s-internal-waterways-system-threatens-to-damage-agricultural-production-and-shipping

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