April brings heightened concerns for the Mississippi River watershed, the world’s fourth largest.
Barges, stranded by low water sit at the Port of Rosedale along the Mississippi River on Oct. 20, 2022, in Rosedale, Mississippi.
When the river dropped precipitously last fall, it snarled barge traffic and delayed shipments, exacerbating supply chain problems and bringing the Mississippi River’s role in the U.S. and global markets to the fore. With climate change bringing more extreme weather conditions, river planners expect more droughts, more flooding and more challenges ahead.
Seasonal floods have long taken their toll on river commerce. In 2019, for example, damage to public and private property, plus losses to crops and livestock, in the Mississippi basin reached $20 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Low water creates multiple challenges for shippers. Currents and shoals become more dangerous. Barges must be loaded with fewer products, requiring more barges that add to the traffic jams at locks.
“With the backdrop of what’s happened in the Ukraine, with the breadbasket of Europe being knocked out, to be able to fulfill those foreign buyers’ orders … They needed to make sure that the commerce continued,” said Deb Calhoun, a senior vice president for Waterways Council Inc., an industry advocacy group. Dredging by the Army Corps of Engineers and channel work by the Coast Guard to keep energy exports moving also assisted European allies facing pressure from Russia, she said.
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