An electric barge will soon quietly carry cargo along inland waterways in The Netherlands, powered by batteries housed in a shipping container. Dutch company Wärtsilä designed the barge, and is ...

In an effort to ease highway congestion and reduce air pollution, Louisiana port officials have turned to a shuttle service that sends empty cargo containers to Baton Rouge, where they are loaded with ...

After the second major shipping line stopped serving the Port of Portland in April, farmers and paper companies upriver in Lewiston, Idaho, lost their best connection to global trade. Now, that ...

The Port of Greater Baton Rouge announced a new weekly short-sea shipping service for containers via barge to the Port of New Orleans. This regular service is scheduled weekly to facilitate demand ...

New barge-rail shuttle service along the Columbia and Snake rivers could alleviate costs for importers and exporters in Oregon. To remedy the region’s shipping crisis, container barge service has been ...

Right now, one shipping company runs regular container barges between New Orleans and Memphis, with occasional trips elsewhere. But otherwise, there's little container traffic on the Mississippi. The ...