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Moving Grain: White House Launches Initiatives To Combat Fuel Prices Oct 29, 2022
White House Launches Initiatives To Combat Fuel Prices For the week ending October 24, the U.S average diesel fuel price continued to rise for the third week in a row. […]
Moving Grain: Barge Spot Rates Drop Sharply Oct 22, 2022
Barge Spot Rates Drop Sharply, Despite Ongoing River Challenges For the week of October 18, the St. Louis barge spot rate (GTR table 9) fell precipitously to $72.58 per ton […]
Moving Grains: Union Rejects Tentative Agreement With Railroads Oct 13, 2022
Union Rejects Tentative Agreement With Railroads On Monday, October 11, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED) rejected its tentative agreement with the railroads—an action which reintroduces the […]
Moving Grain: Closures, Restrictions on the Lower Mississippi River Announced Oct 6, 2022
Closures and Restrictions on the Lower Mississippi River Announced To accommodate removal of a gas pipeline, the Lower Mississippi River (LMR) will implement a series of closures and restrictions in […]
Moving Grain: Diesel Price Falls to Lowest Since March Sep 30, 2022
Diesel Price Falls to Lowest Since March For the week ending September 26, the U.S. average price of diesel fell 7.5 cents to $4.889 per gallon. According to the U.S. […]
Moving Grain: Diesel Prices Soar After 9-Week Decline Sep 4, 2022
Diesel Price Soars—Up 20.9 Cents After 9-Week Decline For the week ending August 29, the U.S. average price of diesel rose 20.6 cents to $5.515 per gallon. According to the […]
Moving Grain: BNSF To End Embargo on Shipments into California Aug 27, 2022
BNSF To End Embargo on Shipments into California BNSF railroad has announced it will end its restrictions on shipments into California on September 4. In late June, BNSF began limiting […]
Moving Grain: Diesel Price Drops 8.2 Cents Aug 21, 2022
Diesel Price Drops 8.2 Cents, With Oil Price Lowest Since February For the week ending August 15—the eighth consecutive week of decline—the U.S average price of diesel fell 8.2 cents […]
Moving Grain: Panama Canal Tentatively Schedules Locks’ Closure Aug 7, 2022
Panama Canal Tentatively Schedules Locks’ Closure To Perform Maintenance Work On August 11, 17, 18, and 23, the Panama Canal Authority is closing the west lane of the Canal’s Gatun […]
Moving Grain: Army Corps of Engineers Endorses Deepening Port of New York and New Jersey Jul 31, 2022
USACE Endorses Deepening Port of New York and New Jersey The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recently endorsed a 4-year study done by USACE and the Port Authority of […]
