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BlueWater Reporting says tonnage on the Mississippi River rose to 552 million tons in 2017, up from 526 million in 2016 and 521 million in 2015. Plans to deploy container vessels and dredge the lower river to 50 feet are cited as future capacity boosts.
Growing river volumes and planned dredging support long-term barge capacity for grain exports, but the report describes multi-year plans rather than near-term price drivers.
freightwaves.comFreightWaves StaffJan 2, 2019Not 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.
