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Barge boom
| 题名： | Barge boom |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | David Krapf |
| 摘要： | I try to be as positive as possible, and this quarter, it has been easy. Simply put, the barge industry is booming. Well, maybe that's a bit too positive, but I'm not far off. The barge industry, as Pam Glass writes in this month's cover story (see page 26), is enjoying a post-Covid, post-drought surge. Barge operators are feeling pretty good as we enter the second half of 2023. Just about every barging sector appears to have returned to pre-Covid operations, with revenues, freight rates and barge utilization up, and customer demand strong. Even demand for export coal has been steady and steel plants are expanding along the inland waterways. As Jennifer Carpenter, president and CEO of the American Waterways Operators, told WorkBoat, "Demand has been pretty robust in many sectors and folks have some optimism that will continue." |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Work Boat |
| 卷： | 80 |
| 期： | 8 |
| 页码： | 2-2 |
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