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原文传递 Unpacking Global Climate Risks To Water Transport

题名：	Unpacking Global Climate Risks To Water Transport
正文语种：	eng
作者：	DAVID MURRAY
摘要：	What's happening to the world's riverborne transportation systems? Within the past several years, all of the world's major rivers that are also commercial traffic arteries have suffered either extreme drought, floods or both in quick succession. This year, the Mississippi River is facing its second year of unusually low water, with light-loading and cargo restrictions and millions of dollars in extra dredging to keep channels clear. The Amazon River and its tributaries-increasingly used by the United States' grain-exporting competitors to the south to transport their corn and soybeans-are also facing extreme drought this year. The Amazon has fallen to its lowest levels in a century, and news reports feature pictures of stranded towboats and houseboats and towns that once stood on river-banks staring across acres of dry silt instead.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	137
期：	34
页码：	5,38-39