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Stakeholders, operators and waterway managers connected to the Mississippi River met in New Orleans February 16, ahead of the city's busiest Carnival weekend, for the 41st annual conference of the Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council (MVTTC). The year that's passed since the last MVTTC conference has been a critical one for cargoes connected to the Mississippi Valley and for mariners who operate on the inland waterways, said Jeff Carman, senior sales director for American Commercial Barge Line (ACBL) and chair of MVTTC. "If you look at where we were 12 months ago, a lot of things have changed," Carman said. "Russia invaded Ukraine. We've seen the price of oil go from $78 a barrel to $123 a barrel and now back to around $80." Over the past year, the API 2, the price index for coal, went from $174 to $400 and back down to $136 at the time of the conference, Carman said. |