River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river levels are driving up transportation costs for Midwest farmers. The ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A Mississippi River bridge where a shipping barge accident took place Sunday is difficult to navigate because it’s near a bend in the river at Vicksburg, bridge superintendent ...

Commercial traffic on the Monongahela River is being restricted to smaller vessels, impacting some of the barges that ply the river carrying coal and other products. A notice to mariners Tuesday night ...

Shipping season on the upper Mississippi River has ended as the last barges headed south from St. Paul, Minnesota Nov. 25.

The low water levels of the Mississippi River — and others across the U.S. — have caused obstacles to shipping that have ripple effects on the global economy. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

Indiana River & Rail Terminals (IRRT) recently expanded its capacity for handling barge shipments of steel and general cargo ...

A barge sank after it crashed into a bridge over the Mississippi River in Vicksburg. The tow of the barge crashed into the old Highway 80 railroad bridge Thursday. Sign up for our Newsletters David ...

Columbia River navigators are growing worried as a project to put a 100-mile power transmission line under the river charges ahead without offering ways to mitigate its impacts on the industry.