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The high cost of building new barges and the labor to crew tows have been a helpful development for the inland barge industry, keeping barge rates high and preventing an overbuilding of bottoms. After two difficult months this winter when the barge industry was hit hard by the Covid-19 omi-cron variant that sidelined crews and equipment, demand for barging services is picking up as the U.S. economy rebounds, David Grzebinski, CEO of Kirby Corp., the nation's largest tank barge operator, said in releasing his company's first quarter earnings in April. |