# Study Will Look At Upper Mississippi River Port Improvements - The Waterways Journal

> IEI Barge Services, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Transportation, is supporting a freight study of additional infrastructure at port terminals on the Upper Mississippi River in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. The study follows a 2018 regional freight assessment that recommended incremental expansion of existing port facilities.

- Date: 2019-01-25 · published 2019-01-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/61295-study-will-look-at-upper-mississippi-river-port-improvements-the-waterways
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Planned port expansion could eventually lower shipping costs for regional shippers, but the project is at a study stage and will not change near-term supply or prices.

## Sources

- waterwaysjournal.net: https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2019/01/25/study-umr-port-improvements/

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