Armada of barges cleared for Mississippi River shipments after floods

The upper Mississippi River reopened to barge traffic on Friday as vessels were cleared to ship through St. Louis harbor, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said, and the situation quickly became a logistics nightmare as dozens of towboats and hundreds of delayed barges tried to maneuver upriver.

from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2NbFAWu