摘要: |
You've probably heard a lot about "demand destruction" over the past few months, that fancy phrase that business leaders and economists like to use when describing how lockdowns have kept us all inside, producing a global economic slowdown as we travel less, buy less, build less and generally change our consumer habits. The barge industry, which carries a great deal of the stuff that goes into heating and building our homes, powering our cars and planes and filling our pantries, has not escaped this "destruction." There's no question that barging has taken a deep hit from the downturn in cargo volumes for things like coal, crude oil, petroleum, iron ore and construction materials. |