An electric barge will soon quietly carry cargo along inland waterways in The Netherlands, powered by batteries housed in a shipping container. Dutch company Wärtsilä designed the barge, and is ...

The Port of Greater Baton Rouge announced a new weekly short-sea shipping service for containers via barge to the Port of New Orleans. This regular service is scheduled weekly to facilitate demand ...

The container-on-barge business of the SCF Marine Inc.'s SEACOR America's Marine Highway (AMH) unit has seen its business grow rapidly with the boom in exports of plastic resin from U.S. producers.

In an effort to ease highway congestion and reduce air pollution, Louisiana port officials have turned to a shuttle service that sends empty cargo containers to Baton Rouge, where they are loaded with ...

Columbia Coastal Transport, LLC, a container feeder barge operator, announced the arrival of its newest container super-barge, Columbia Boston, into service this month. The 912-TEU barge is sister to ...

“Waterborne container cargo provides shippers with one of the safest and most fuel efficient forms of transportation today. It reduces roadway damage, highway congestion, bottlenecks at port gate ...

Right now, one shipping company runs regular container barges between New Orleans and Memphis, with occasional trips elsewhere. But otherwise, there's little container traffic on the Mississippi. The ...