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TEN YEARS AGO, the newly formed Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative met in Washington, D.C., to push for more waterways infrastructure spending; and the mv. Mary Lynn took the first tow onto the Missouri River in 2013.TWENTY YEARS AGO, Up per Mississippi Lock 24 at Clarksville, Mo., reopened after a winter closure for rehabilitation; and the Port of Corpus Christi hired Mercator Transport Group to assist it in pre-selling the port's La Quinta Gateway container terminal.THIRTY YEARS AGO, The American Waterways Operators said it would "unleash all stops" to fight a Clinton administration plan to increase the barge fuel tax by 525 percent; and Quality Shipyards Inc. began a one-month overhaul of the Louisiana Department of Transportations ferry Westside. |