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Mississippi River barge backup shrinks, oil cleanup continues
2013-02-01 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mississippi River barge traffic remained congested on Friday near Vicksburg, Mississippi, where a barge accident and oil spill shuttered the major shipping artery on Sunday, but the backlog of boats was slowly declining. The U.S. Coast Guard reopened the river on Wednesday to one-way traffic through a 16-mile safety zone from river mile marker 425 to 441, where the backlog of barges had ballooned to more than 1,000. The backup thinned to 519 barges by midday Friday, including 11 northbound...
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Mississippi River barge backup tops 1,000 after oil spill
2013-01-30 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 1,000 barges were backed up on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Wednesday after a weekend barge accident and oil spill forced the closure of the major shipping artery, the U.S. Coast Guard said. An 80,000-gallon tanker barge that struck a railroad bridge on Sunday continued to leak crude oil, but cleanup crews have deployed 2,800 feet of boom to contain the spill and airborne spotters have not detected any oil outside the containment area. Response crews will...
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Barge hits bridge, spills oil into Mississippi River
2013-01-28 09:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A barge carrying 80,000 gallons of oil hit a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., on Sunday, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and closing the waterway for eight miles in each direction, the Coast Guard said. A second barge was damaged. Investigators did not know how much had spilled, but an oily sheen was reported as far as three miles downriver of Vicksburg after the 1:12 a.m. (2:12 a.m. ET) incident, said Lt. Ryan Gomez of the Coast Guard's office in Memphis, Tenn. Authorities...
Damen launches second crane barge from Chinese shipyard
2013-01-18 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Damen Pontoons & Barges has launched a new CBa 6324 crane barge, the second in the series, at its Nantong Yahua Shipyard in China.
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US Fab to build deck barge for Harley Marine
2013-01-16 01:00:00| Ship Technology
US Fab, a unit of Vigor Industrial, has won a contract from Harley Marine to build a deck barge.
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