The word 'barges' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a large, flat-bottomed boat that is propelled by being pushed along, or pulled by, a motorboat: "The barges slowly chugged along the river, loaded down with cargo."
Floating Market, Regent's Canal, Mile End Park, E3, to 16 Aug, canalrivertrust.org.uk Part of London's much-loved community of barges and narrowboats becomes a vintage, crafts and foodie dream on water.
Meanwhile it looks pretty rough in the pack behind them with lots of barges (of the swimming not boating kind) and swinging elbows.
The only way for foreigners to travel between Sudan and Egypt is to take the Nile Navigation Company (NNC) ferry down Lake Nasser from Wadi Halfa to Aswan, and to book a separate passage, on freight barges, for their vehicles.
Chadwick, whilst not ruling out contracting with railway companies, believed that steam-boat funeral barges would resolve the issue in a stately fashion.
We got more of a thrill out of saying buongiorno to the guys who manoeuvred their small barges down the same canal to collect our rubbish twice a week.
After a thunderous sun shower festooned Brisbane with rainbows in the last light hours of 2014, the city's night sky was lit by 10-tonne fireworks shows from rooftops and river barges.
Midway through my chat with Reg, 72-year-old Daphne Bergin barges in to discuss her first job as a dressmaker.
It wasn't just the high-spec design that drew attention, it was the bravura manner in which the Eye's prefabricated components were brought up the Thames on river barges to Jubilee Gardens, and the week-long drama during which, inch by inch, the giant wheel was raised from the river and up into place alongside County Hall.
I've trumped the barges for slowness.
They use high-pressure hoses, mounted on barges, to churn up the river bed.
Big container ships will dock here and offload their cargoes onto smaller barges which will then travel 225km up the Kaladan before transferring onto trucks and into India.
