by - November 14, 2025 3:25 pm
High water levels, river system maintenance, and tariff uncertainty are key factors in an almost 19% drop in tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River system in the first 10 months…
by - September 11, 2025 5:15 pm
A significant decline of shipments between ports on the Arkansas River and disruptions caused by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies key factors in tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River down…
by - July 10, 2025 3:33 pm
High water levels and Trump’s tariffs are key factors in the almost 20% decline in Arkansas River tonnage in the first half of 2025. Commercial river tonnage in June was…
by - May 12, 2025 12:25 pm
Tariffs implemented and proposed by the Trump Administration are a big part of why Arkansas River tonnage is down more than 15% in the first four months of 2025, according…
by - March 20, 2025 10:42 am
Arkansas River tonnage totaled 1.81 million tons in the first two months of 2025, down 1.3% compared with 2.07 million tons in the same period of 2024, according to a…
by - January 16, 2025 11:00 am
Tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River in 2024 totaled 12.446 million tons, up 1.95% compared with 2023 tonnage. The increase was driven by a 13% increase in sand, gravel, rock…
by - November 14, 2024 6:38 pm
Improving water levels on the Mississippi River have helped tonnage on the Arkansas River to swing from being down 4% year-to-date through August to being up almost 2% through October….
by - September 25, 2024 4:49 pm
Higher freight rates and low water levels on the Mississippi River could be behind a 4% decline in commercial shipping tonnage on the Arkansas River between January and August. Another…
by - August 1, 2024 2:48 pm
Arkansas River traffic tonnage totaled 6.19 million between January and June, down 2% compared with the same period in 2023. Declines in inbound traffic contributed to the overall decline, according…
by - May 15, 2024 5:21 pm
Arkansas River shipping continues to build upon 2023 gains, with 4.569 million tons carried on the river in the first four months of 2024, up 8% compared with the same…
by - March 26, 2024 11:30 am
Commercial shipping on the Arkansas River in the first two months of 2024 totaled 2.078 million tons, down 1% compared with the same period in 2023. Declines in shipments of…
by - January 11, 2024 4:10 pm
Arkansas River tonnage was up more than 16% in December, which helped push total tonnage shipped in 2023 up almost 11% compared with 2022, according to numbers posted Thursday (Jan….
by - October 17, 2023 11:03 am
Even with an 8.4% decline and 12.2% decline in August and September, respectively, tonnage on the Arkansas River totaled 9.282 million tons through September, up 12%, according to the U.S….
by - January 11, 2023 6:01 pm
A more than 16% gain in outbound shipments and gains in sand, gravel, rock and iron/steel shipments resulted in a 2.94% gain in commercial tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River…
by - July 12, 2022 4:26 pm
Commercial tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River in the first half of 2022 is up 3% thanks in large part to a 22% increase in sand, gravel and rock shipped…
by - October 18, 2021 11:08 am
An expected rebound in river traffic emerged in recent months, with tonnage through September up 3.4% compared with the same period in 2020. Impacts from Hurricane Ida and the closure…
by - August 19, 2021 5:05 pm
Tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River between January and July is down 2% compared with the same period of 2020, with one port operator blaming some of the decline on…
by - June 14, 2021 6:15 pm
Tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River during the first five months of 2021 is up 0.54% compared with the same period of 2020, with inbound and outbound traffic boosting activity…
by - October 22, 2020 12:30 pm
Two port operators on the Arkansas River system say conditions are improving – thanks in large part to shipments of sand/gravel/rock and wheat – with hopes that “normal” conditions may…
by - August 12, 2020 3:33 pm
Fueled primarily by gains in sand/gravel/rock and wheat shipments, tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River during the first seven months of totaled 6.136 million tons, up 28.8% over the same…
