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It handles about 60,000 barges a year, along with 4,500 to 5,000 deep-draft vessels that carry grain and other bulk cargo such as steel.

Coast Guard reopens part of Mississippi River 2011

The port handles about 60,000 barges a year, along with 4,500 to 5,000 deep-draft vessels.

Out-of-control barges on Mississippi hit bridge 2011

With deep-draft cargo ships set to steam through a widened Panama Canal in 2014, South Carolina Rep. Henry Brown tucked $400,000 of federal money into a House spending bill to deepen the Port of Charleston so it could accommodate the bigger ships.

GOP Earmark Ban Shifts Clout Jonathan Weisman 2010

For GOP lawmakers, the self-imposed ban means that if the White House favors the ports of New York and Oakland, Calif., over Savannah, Ga., and Charleston for deep-draft ships, the only recourse will be to beg the administration to relent.

GOP Earmark Ban Shifts Clout Jonathan Weisman 2010

The chances were great that they would need to load the deep-draft cutters and pinnaces with their keels and fixed rudders on sledges again before they reached the mouth of Back's River, so they couldn't just abandon the battered vehicles on the ice.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

As naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison points out, it is unlikely that the deep-draft Alfred would have served as lead ship in these shallow waters.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

As naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison points out, it is unlikely that the deep-draft Alfred would have served as lead ship in these shallow waters.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

'Fourteen fishing boats, half a dozen deep-draft merchant ships, and I see the humpbacks were up to thin out the krill.

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

Each bedroom had a floor-to-ceiling wall of glass looking westward -- toward the waterfront for deep-draft vessels dredged in the delta three kilometers away.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

The exhibition of models, plans, and photographs of the existing and projected canal for deep-draft ships, arranged by the department of the ministry of commerce for the building of waterways, offered a general view of the whole network of the Austrian waterways, comprising those of the Danube, Moldau, and Elbe rivers, together with the system of canals.

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission