News / Mississippi barge quagmire leaves exporters looking for alternative routes

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Anxiety has been growing among US agriculture exporters as barges limp down a Mississippi River hobbled by closures and stoppages.

And the US Army Corps of Engineers is engaged in a frustrating game of ’whack-a-mole’, trying to unclog blockages along the river.

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