Mississippi flooding delaying barge traffic from Port of Burns Harbor
June 19, 08 by TheFleetIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
BY ANDREA HOLECEK | Source: NWI Times
BURNS HARBOR | Severe flooding on the Mississippi River has hampered some barge traffic out of Indiana’s International Port at Burns Harbor, holding up some grain movements to the South and ore movements to the north.
“[I]t’s day to day throughout the river system,” Jody Peacock, spokesman for the Ports of Indiana said. “Flooding is having an impact on the river. They’re restricting the amount of barges that one tugboat can push and there are requirements for northbound shipments, and night travel is under the captain’s judgement.”
John Starke, grain merchant for Cargill’s port operation, said 200,000 bushels of corn meant for the company’s Decatur, Ala. processing plant are sitting dockside because Mississippi barge traffic currently is stalled.
“Right now we’re working with other grain shippers to work with the railroads to give us rates,” he said Tuesday. “Corn processors are being impacted, and as a supplier, we are too,”
