# Months Of Flooding On Mississippi River Marooned Midwest Trade : NPR

> Flooding on the upper Mississippi kept barges stranded for nearly three months, the longest such standstill on record. A barge fleet near Cairo, Illinois held 642 barges by early June, carrying salt, fertilizer and steel. Barges have since resumed moving and the backlogs have largely cleared.

- Date: 2019-08-16 · published 2019-08-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/57483-months-of-flooding-on-mississippi-river-marooned-midwest-trade-npr
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Stranded barges delayed grain and fertilizer shipments, raising freight costs and widening regional basis. With movement restored, the pressure on barge freight and river-linked grain prices should ease.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: bullish ▲

## Sources

- npr.org: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/16/750487354/months-of-flooding-on-mississippi-river-marooned-midwest-trade

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