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Inland waterways see surge in terminal improvements 1955
River terminals and related facilities expanded nationwide with new harbors docks and grain elevators. Projects include Pittsburgh steel mill conversion to an integrated terminal, Memphis barge harbor, Granite City dock, Chicago Lake Calumet harbor, Port Corpus Christi upgrade, Freeport harbor, Mobile facilities, New York harbor program, New Orleans grain elevator expansion, Baton Rouge facilities, Louisville terminal, Houston private barge terminal, Chicago canal barge terminal, Kansas City wharf rebuild, plus numerous coal and chemical docks along major rivers and waterways.
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Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Mississippi River
Memphis
Tenn
Chain-of-Rocks Canal
Granite City
Ill
St. Louis
Lake Calumet
Chicago, Ill
Corpus Christi
Texas
Brazos River Navigation District
Freeport
Mobile
Ala
Alabama Steel Industry
Port of
New York
Hudson River
New York-New Jersey
Long Island Sound
New Orleans
Port of Louisville
Houston Ship Channel
Green's Bayou
Port of Houston Commission
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
Chicago
City of
Kansas City
Missouri River
Ohio
Illinois
Mississippi
Monongahela
Allegheny
Tennessee
Green
Kentucky
Kanawha
Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway
Harmar
Allegheny River
Dilles Bottom
Ve Electric Power Plants
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Cassville
Wis
Warrior-Tombigbee
Bucks
Alabama Power Co
New Johnsonville
Tennessee River
Minnesota
Columbia
Missouri
Warrior-Tombigbee and Gulf Intracoastal
Calumet-Sag
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Calumet Sag Canal
Kanawha River
Fayetteville
N.C
Cape Fear River