At our Tucker River Fellows meeting this week we got the opportunity to tour our local shipyard. We meet one of the owners who showed us around. The first thing we saw when we arrived was a large tower that holds any scrap grains that were collected. These scraps don't pass the regulations of the sender, so instead are sold to local farmers at a lower price. Then we climbed up onto the towboat and went upstream a little to pick up an empty liquid barge that had arrived today.
These barges save companies with orders of large quantities thousands as one barge is equal to fifteen railcars or sixty trucks as the engine can produce from a few thousand horsepowers to 10,000. This was a fun and information trip and if I ever need to send a large shipment somewhere I will definitely use a barge.
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