# Op/Ed: Making The Mississippi River Mightier

> An op-ed by Sean Duffy describes the Big River Coalition's push to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel to 50 feet to support grain exports. A Director's Report on the project is expected in March 2018.

- Date: 2017-12-12 · published 2017-12-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/67374-op-ed-making-the-mississippi-river-mightier
- Commodities: [Ocean Grain Freight](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OCEANFRT.md), [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Deeper channels would allow larger post-panamax vessels to load more grain at Gulf ports, potentially lowering export freight costs over the long term, but the change is years away and has no near-term price effect.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: bearish ▼
- OCEANFRT: bearish ▼

## Sources

- marinelink.com: https://www.marinelink.com/news/mississippi-mightier432045

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