Arkansas River commerce up
Clog downstream on Mississippi hasn’t hurt state’s ports
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 1:59 a.m.
A yellow material handling excavator scoops corn out of a barge and dumps it into a cute that leads to a railroad car at the Five Rivers Distribution Intermodal Facility on Sept. 7 in Van Buren. The port on the Arkansas River has seen a slight slowdown in activity because barge traffic was halted briefly due to low levels on the Mississippi River near Greenville, Miss.
The vantage point from the top of the three-story coal loading dock allowed Marty Shell to count the fleet of barges docked in his port on the Arkansas River.
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Business, Pages 25 on 09/13/2012
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