# Container shipping on river barges could boost St. Louis freight | Business | missouribusinessalert.com

> St. Louis-area officials and Mississippi River city mayors met to explore ways to encourage shippers to move more containers by barge. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced almost $5 million in grants for infrastructure and market intelligence, including about $100,000 for a Port of St. Louis-led consortium to study logistics needs.

- Date: 2016-12-06 · published 2016-12-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73651-container-shipping-on-river-barges-could-boost-st-louis-freight-business
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Shifting container freight to river barges could ease road and rail congestion and lower inland freight costs for feed and grain movements, but the effect on near-term feed prices is limited while improvements remain at the study stage.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: neutral

## Sources

- missouribusinessalert.com: https://www.missouribusinessalert.com/news/business/container-shipping-on-river-barges-could-boost-st-louis-freight/article_d02115b3-7c1a-5517-8932-ccfd7104d231.html

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