Sentence examples for barge route from inspiring English sources

The river was the Illinois — barge route from the Mississippi to the outskirts of Chicago.

The Monongahela, made navigable by means of locks, is a major barge route, carrying coal, coke, iron, and steel.

Clearly, the entire process of a move — determining if a house is sound, mapping out an efficient truck or barge route and covering the costs — is no easy task.

Adapting a model introduced by Shint ani et al. [22] for service network design in maritime shipping, Maras [20] investigated the design of an optimal barge shipping route.

But as railroads and highways replaced the river as the preferred shipping routes, barge traffic dried up so much that some ports have gone years without seeing a single one.

The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway is an important route for barges, and several sections of it furnish access to major gulf ports for oceangoing vessels.

In fact, some here see other opportunities hidden away in the race to solve the Asian carp threat — perhaps a remade, more attractive and cleaner Chicago River; a reinvented route for commercial barge products headed from or to the South; long-needed fixes to the region's flooding measures.

Our plan for this day's ride was to follow the route that funerary barges took in previous centuries as they made their way toward the water landing at Beth Haim.

Mr. Pasos said that the lake could easily accommodate the barge traffic, covering most of the route, and that the dredging of the river would be minimal.

The corps saluted a load of new oak trees that arrived on a tugboat, via the same route that the last barge of city garbage took exactly 10 years ago, from Flushing, Queens.

The French all-business-class start-up l'Avion is also flying 757s with 90 reclining seats between Newark and Paris Orly Airport, though British Airways plans to barge into the New York to Paris route with a mostly premium-class start-up called OpenSkies early this summer.