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Mississippi River mayors held a news conference to offer insights on possible increases in shipping traffic on the Mississippi River to aid the backlog occurring from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

A container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, causing a catastrophic failure as the bridge collapsed. Shipping and agricultural interests are still determining the impact the accident will have on shipping in and out of the Port of Baltimore.

A mild winter and lack of heavy ice allowed the Great Lakes shipping season to open early.

The Upper Mississippi River shipping season officially opened March 17 as the first tow arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Since late 2023 and into 2024, the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe have been laying off workers, which is causing poor service and concerns for safety.

The Swenhaugen family in Canadian, Texas, lost two rural homes and most of a swine operation to a massive wildfire that swept through the Panhandle last week. That fire is now the largest in Texas history. Tatum Swenhaugen shared with DTN what she and her family went through before and...

Extremely warm temperatures so far this winter have left the Great Lakes without much, if any, ice coverage at times.

Shortly after the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment in early 2023, five senators co-sponsored a bipartisan rail safety bill that has yet to be approved.

A typical winter with below-zero temperatures, frozen lakes, lots of snow and more has evaded Minnesota and other states in the Upper Midwest.

The Great Lakes shipping season enjoyed a few extra weeks thanks to a warmer December, allowing lakers to haul more loads.

The global shipping industry is in chaos as the problems in the Red Sea are hampering ships that bypass the Panama Canal to get to the Suez Canal.

Navigation locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers will be closed for maintenance beginning Jan. 14, 2024, for 11-weeks.

Pictured is the Nordika Desgagnes loading beet pulp pellets at the Hanson-Mueller Elevator A in Duluth, Minnesota. Elevator A, formerly owned by General Mills, saw its first saltie arrive in nearly a decade on June 5, 2023. (Photo by Schauer Photo Images)

The far Upper Mississippi River season was declared officially ended when the last tow of the 2023 navigation season, the Motor Vessel Thomas Erickson, departed Lock and Dam 10, near Guttenberg, Iowa, on Dec. 3, with 15 barges.

The drought-stricken Panama Canal is causing all kinds of shipping disruptions, including grain shipments.

U.S. Grains Council annual Corn Harvest Quality Report shows largest crop, lowest broken corn ratio on record.

The 2023 corn harvest isn't quite finished, but the results are mostly favorable, even above average in spots, given the poor weather in the spring and summer.

North Dakota Wheat Commission released their annual spring wheat and durum crop quality reports, breaking down every aspect of each crop for exporters and mills to reference.

The Panama Canal operates by water flowing from the Chagres River, a stream in Panama forming part of the Panama Canal system, into Gatun Lake, which continues to fall due to ongoing drought.

After seven days of strike action, the union representing the striking Seaway workers finally reached a tentative agreement late in the evening Oct. 29.