Floods Disrupt Deliveries

摘要

Floods that swelled the Mississippi River to record levels are also threatening to push up the region's materials prices and cause costly delivery delays as the disaster's cost to the construction supply chain mounts. Impeded barge shipments of scrap metal, aggregates, gypsum and other materials on the flooded Mississippi River will drive materials costs up in the region this summer, says Ken Simonson, Associated General Contractors' chief economist.