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  2. Trip pilot - Wikipedia

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    A push boat.. Trip pilot is a term applied to captains temporarily or occasionally employed on inland towing vessels in the United States of America.Trip pilots hold a Master of Towing Vessels license issued by the U.S. Coast Guard, and are employed in the commercial tug and barge industry, primarily in the inland brown water trade on push boats operating on the Mississippi River and ...

  3. MV Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    M/V Mississippi is a working towboat for the USACE Memphis District of the Mississippi Valley Division. Ninety percent of the time it is moving barges, equipment and supplies in support of mat-sinking operations. It also serves as an inspection boat for the Mississippi River Commission (MRC) during a high- and low-water inspection trip each ...

  4. Pusher (boat) - Wikipedia

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    Larger boats can run this segment of the river with the maximum tow size of 42 barges southbound and 40+ northbound. A typical River tow might be 35 to 42 barges, each about 200 feet (61 m) long by 35 feet (11 m) wide, configured in a rectangular shape 6 to 7 barges long and 5 to 6 barges wide, depending on the number of barges in tow.

  5. Low Mississippi River limits barges just as farmers want to ...

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    A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops and send tons of corn ...

  6. About the Mississippi River's locks and dams - AOL

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    A barge, a bulkhead and $3.3 million: How the Mississippi River's locks and dams stay in ship shape

  7. Photos show the Mississippi River is so low that it's ...

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    Barges are cutting their cargo, engineers are emergency dredging, and sea water is pushing its way up a historically low Mississippi River.

  8. American River Transportation Company - Wikipedia

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    ARTCO Stevedoring provides bulk transfer and crane services on near New Orleans, Louisiana on the Lower Mississippi River [3] [4] As of 2005, ARTCO owned 2,000 barges, and some towboats and harbor tugboats. [5] As of 2016, ARTCO operated a fleet of 20 fleeting boats, a shipyard with five dry docks and a barge wash and repair facility.

  9. Armada of barges cleared for Mississippi River shipments ...

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    The upper Mississippi River reopened to barge traffic on Friday as vessels were cleared to ship through St. Louis harbor, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said, and the situation quickly became a ...

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