WASHINGTON - The government is stepping up efforts to unload Mississippi River barges carrying crops damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The Agriculture Department plans to spend $7.6 million for ...

Port Manchac could serve as a low-cost facility for unloading crude oil from trains and transferring it to barges headed for area refineries, a study shows. Patrick Dufresne, executive director/CEO of ...

A port improvement project that will benefit the movement of grain and other commodities in and out of Red Wing is moving forward with help from a nearly $2 million federal grant, according to Red ...

While American taxpayers await an accounting on the billions sent to the Gulf Coast to clean up Katrina’s devastation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture already knows the tab for four emergency ...

Low water levels on the Mississippi River, a result of dryness across the Midwest and South, are reducing the ability for barges to effectively navigate, driving up farmers’ transportation costs as ...

SunCoke Energy Partners LP has started barge unloading services at its Convent Marine Terminal in a multi-year agreement with Cooper Consolidated LLC. The terminal will make use of Cooper's floating ...