# Mississippi River Barge Shipping Resumes After Floods

> The upper Mississippi River fully reopened to barge traffic for the first time since November after the Coast Guard lifted its St. Louis ban. Shippers are rushing a backlog of fertilizer barges to farmers before corn planting deadlines. Forecast heavy rain could raise river levels again within a week.

- Date: 2019-05-17 · published 2019-05-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/58979-mississippi-river-barge-shipping-resumes-after-floods
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md), [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

Reopened locks ease freight bottlenecks and help get fertilizer and grain moving, which reduces near-term logistics premiums. Renewed flooding risk limits how durable that relief is.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: neutral
- BARGE: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UREA | 2026-03-26 | [The Mississippi River is open for business early - Brownfield Ag News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16382-the-mississippi-river-is-open-for-business-early-brownfield-ag-news.md) | +10.4% | +11.0% |
| UREA | 2026-10-08 | [European Natural Gas Prices Defy Rebound in Middle Eastern LNG Shipments](https://feedsoft.ai/events/629-european-natural-gas-prices-defy-rebound-in-middle-eastern-lng-shipments.md) | +2.3% | +2.6% |
| UREA | 2023-04-22 | [US fertilizer prices continue short-term rise, while all other markets decline.](https://feedsoft.ai/events/36731-us-fertilizer-prices-continue-short-term-rise-while-all-other-markets-decline.md) | +3.2% | +5.6% |
| UREA | 2023-02-08 | [Barge traffic back to normal; lock closures loom – Illinois Business Journal](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16654-barge-traffic-back-to-normal-lock-closures-loom-illinois-business-journal.md) | -0.8% | -6.9% |
| UREA | 2020-09-11 | [Port of Blencoe Starts Work on $11M Port – Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals, INC.](https://feedsoft.ai/events/51004-port-of-blencoe-starts-work-on-11m-port-inland-rivers-ports-and-terminals-inc.md) | -1.1% | -5.0% |

## Sources

- gcaptain.com: https://gcaptain.com/mississippi-river-barge-shipping-resumes-after-floods/

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