One tugboat pulls the barge while another pushes, to handle the wind and provide another set of eyes. Two barges typically move upriver, carrying about 15 blades per barge.

The barge is one of four carrying wheat on the Columbia River from the Snake River area in eastern Washington.

Environmentally, barges produce 10% of the carbon per ton-mile of cargo compared to trucks, “so it would be a tremendous increase in carbon emissions through the Snake River corridor,” she said.

Less than a month after President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum revoking a Biden-era agreement regarding the ...

Environmental groups and the Nez Perce Tribe have filed a lawsuit to stop proposed dredging of the lower Snake River to aid barge traffic from Lewiston, Idaho — the farthest inland seaport on ...

A trip down the Snake and Columbia Rivers aboard one of the tugs that push barges of grain, wood chips, garbage and other payloads between Lewiston and Vancouver year-round.

The inland waterways report in September 2022 edition of Marine News focused on issues facing the Lower Snake River Dams (LSRD) in the northwest, in U.S.

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 ...

IDAHO, USA — (IDFG) announced that the department will be manually stunning rainbow trout on the South Fork Snake River and moving them to the Upper Snake Region to help the local cutthroat trout.

The barge is one of four carrying wheat on the Columbia River from the Snake River area in eastern Washington. Shaver Transportation of Portland says there were four crew members on board when one ...

That report referenced issues and concerns confronting regional towboat and barge operators about possible changes to the Columbia Snake River System – perhaps even breaching the four Lower ...