Page 31: of Marine News Magazine (September 2015)

Inland Waterways

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CRUDE OIL TRANSPORT

Crude by Rail by the Numbers

No. of CBR trains in 2010: 287

No. of CBR trains in 2014: 5,110

Avg. capacity of CBR tank car: 700 barrels

Length of CBR unit train: 100 – 120 cars

No. of CBR derailment incidents in US with spillage in 2013: 3

No. of CBR derailment incidents in US with spillage in 2014: 3

Oil spillage from CBR trains in US in 2013: 28,000 barrels

Oil spillage from CBR trains in US in 2014: 1,740 barrels

On the Upper Mississippi River – near La Crosse, Wisconsin – empty cars go up and full cars come down to Louisiana re

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