Transportation
Truck Capacity Availability Improving in 2019
American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimates the U.S. has approximately 3.5 million Class 8 trucks dispatched by over 210,000 trucking companies transporting 16.18 billion tons of…
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Investment Helps Keep U.S. Soy Shipping Costs Down
Few public investments provide more economic development than a public port. For example, operating as the major grain logistics tenant at the Port of Greater…
Transportation
Dry Barge Fleet Consolidation
Over the near term, the U.S. Coast Guard, due to flood conditions, has reduced barge tow configurations from St. Louis, Missouri to the Gulf, which…
Transportation
River Elevator Swap Limits Competition
Illinois farmers are fortunate to have six options at harvest. The farmers can deliver directly to a soybean crushing facility, shuttle elevator, river elevator, container…
Infrastructure
U.S. Soybean Container Exports Increasing
A major focus of U.S. ports is to increase the depth of the waterways to increase the size of container vessels that can call on…
Infrastructure
Crop Barge Movements Still Below Normal
After being closed from March 16 through June 20 due to flooding, Lock and Dam 15 at the Quad Cities on the upper Mississippi River…