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SHORTSEA SHIPPING can accommodate up to 81 empty or 50 loaded Twenty- same equipment.” foot Equivalent Units (TEU’s), or 36 empty or loaded Ingram didn’t set off down the river in a vacuum. Every

Forty-foot Equivalent Units (FEU’s). A towboat operating aspect of the voyage was looked at and dissected. Draft – on the locking rivers like the Tennessee, Ohio or Illinois, under the hull and/or above it (air draft) – wasn’t an issue. can typically transport 15 barge tows, which equates to a Admittedly, the containers moved during the test run were possibility of up to 1,215 empty or 750 loaded TEU’s or empty, but 54 fully laden containers only displace about 540 empty or loaded FEU’s. A towboat operating on the 1,600 tons and since the height of loaded containers was

Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans can trans- well below the wheelhouse, air draft wasn’t an issue, either. port up to 54 barge tows, which equates to a possibility of “We had a lot of discussion about going three high, and up to 4,374 empty or 2,700 loaded TEU’s or 1,944 empty if you look further into the future, there is economics for or loaded FEU’s. us in that stow, but safety really comes