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The Silent Giant

The Silent Giant. Raymond Butler Executive Director Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association. Did You Know…. We carry 20% of the nation’s coal… enough to produce 10% of all U.S. electricity used annually

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The Silent Giant

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  1. The Silent Giant Raymond ButlerExecutive DirectorGulf Intracoastal Canal Association

  2. Did You Know… • We carry 20% of the nation’s coal… enough to produce 10% of all U.S. electricity used annually • One 1500-ton inland tank barge carries enough gasoline to drive your car around the world 768 times • One 1500-ton hopper barge carries enough wheat to make 2,190,000 loaves of bread • Barge transportation has the lowest probability of an accident, and is statistically the safest mode of transportation, both in absolute numbers of accidents and in lives lost • An average tow configuration on the lower Mississippi River is longer than four football fields

  3. Truly a Silent Giant • Inland transportation in US: $3 billion/year • UPS is 7 times as large: $20 billion/year • You’re in the “towing business?” • America’s 26,000 miles of inland waterways: • Move 600 million tons/year • Indirectly involve 800,000 jobs • Transport $100 billion in interstate trade

  4. GIWW Commercial Growth

  5. GIWW Tonnage

  6. Select Waterways *includes domestic coastwise tonnage

  7. GIWW… A Brief History • Born in Victoria, 1905 • Congress expanded, 1925-1942 • Sabine/Corpus 100' x 9', 1941 • Completed 426 miles x 125' x 12', 1949 • St. Marks/Brownsville, 1300+ miles

  8. The Early Days • Industrial Lock - 1964 • Completing the Job - 1949 • STCO “Vulcan,” 700 H.P. - 1954 • Dixie “Triumph,” 3000 H.P. - 1996

  9. The Alternative? • How many trucks? • How many rail cars? • How much more cost? • Safety on highways? • Environmental stress?

  10. Greatest Cargo Capacity • The cargo capacity of a standard inland barge: • = 15 railcars • = 60 trucks

  11. Fuel Efficient • Barge transportation is the most fuel efficient method of moving the raw materials needed by the nation Source: Fuel Efficiencyin Freight Transportation,Samuel Ewer Eastman

  12. Environmentally Responsible • Barge transportation produces the lowest levels of emissions Source: EPA EmissionControl Lab

  13. Insuring it Continues • A partnership between: • US Coast Guard • Army Corps of Engineers • Industry Associations • AWO • TWOA • LAWS • GICA

  14. Navigation Problem Report • For the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and connecting tributaries • Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association • American Waterways Operators Association • Texas Waterway Operators Association

  15. Types of Navigation Problems • Blinding lights • Bridges • Aids to navigation (ATON) • Hardened sites • Wrecks, sunken or abandoned vessels • Moorings • Realigning channels • Widening of buoys and beacons • Morganza to the Gulf and Atchafalaya Basin

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