M-U Transforming Ohio River Barging from Coal to Plastics

Barging along the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh (including the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Kanawha rivers) has always been a big business, critical to the economy of the Ohio River Valley region. Barging along the Ohio River is currently undergoing a transformation from coal and steel to petrochemicals and plastics. Why and how? In a phrase, the Marcellus/Utica shale is the reason.

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