Table 1 Performance measures Shuttles turnaround time Locks percentage of barges waiting number of barges waiting in queue waiting time of barges in queue Port area number of barges waiting in queue waiting time of barges in queue Capacity utilisation quay length network connections.
When he'd finished speaking, they waved their Kalashnikovs in the air and made battle cries before jogging back to the barges waiting to send them upstream to war.
Kané and her relatives – about 55 people, crammed on to one slow-moving barge – are waiting to travel north.
Many barges still waiting to proceed south are carrying grain from farms in the Midwest to the Port of South Louisiana, on the Mississippi between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Each night, the child would perch in the steering cabin of the Odin, an old barge, and wait for a train to cross a nearby bridge.
"I'm a little messed up still," he said, as a truck dumped its scorched payload into a waiting barge.
From there, they watched as the car, filled with evidence of New Yorkers' extralegal methods, rumbled into the shredder and was spewed out the other side, into a waiting barge to be resold someplace that, Major Glowacz hopes, is far away.
Amid the clanging of dump trucks, a crane with a clamshell scoop hoisted a pile of debris as big as a minivan and dropped it onto a waiting barge — striking evidence that New York City has revived a place it just cannot seem to do without.
From there, it will be loaded onto a waiting barge and undertake a 5000-kilometer journey down the Eastern Seaboard, around Florida, across the Gulf of Mexico, and up the Mississippi River to Illinois.
