ADVANTAGES

Advantages of Barge Transportation:

Cincinnati Barge & Rail Terminal Helps You Achieve Competitive Advantages in the Marketplace by...

• Offering convenient, reliable access to lower cost long term intermodal services than trucking
• Reducing time and expenses due to congestion on the highways by diverting Interstate traffic to intermodal shipping methods
• Taking advantage of in-transit storage and just in time deliver to boost profits for shippers and receivers
• Offering equipment/services to access new markets in the future e.g. to unload ore, pig iron, and related products and aggregate.

Above images abstracted from A Modal Comparison of Domestic Freight Transportation Effects on the General Public, November, 2007, Texas Transportation Institute, Center for Ports and Waterways.