Sentence examples for more barges from inspiring English sources

Although the Erie Canal was later enlarged to accommodate more barges, it was replaced in 1918 by a modern canal system that followed parts of its old route.

No sooner were New Orleans's docks back up after Katrina than Rita tore through the Gulf, battering more barges and closing coastal waterways again.Ports across the region are limping back to life, but slowly.

Martin T. Hettel, senior manager for bulk sales at AEP River Operations, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, which operates 3,200 barges, said, "We'll still move the nation's freight, it will just take more barges and more towboats".

Replace today's bicycles and cars with horse-drawn carts, add more barges on the waterways, and this is essentially how Amsterdam must have looked to Rembrandt as he did his rounds of wealthy merchants.

The brainchild of Lee Thornley, owner of Bert & May, a bespoke tile company based on Vyner Street, the "hotel" is essentially a one-bedroom houseboat – though Lee (Bert is his nickname) has plans to add six more barges here, and more later in London's Little Venice, as well as York and Bristol, some with two bedrooms.

With three more barges and fresh crews, the picaroons set off to assault the American convoy once more.

Ms. Brunzema said there were bathing structures that use river water in some European cities, though most river enterprises were more like barges with chlorinated water.

The city has a new plan to collect and ship out solid waste that will rely more on barges and marine transfer stations in the boroughs.

Ours was black and green, and while it wasn't covered with the generators and bicycles that mark the more demotic barges, it didn't have evergreen hedges or rush-mat screening for topside privacy, as some of the more upscale barges do.

The East 91st Street transfer station is a key part of the administration's waste-management plan, developed in 2006, which seeks to reduce the number of trucks used to transport trash by relying more on barges.

Under a waste management plan developed in 2006, the city hopes eventually to rely more on barges and trains to haul garbage out of the city, with the goal of limiting air pollution.