River transportation companies left out of recent bounce in coal shipments

摘要

River transportation companies are not seeing the same kind of increasesrnin coal shipments revenue by major railroads, according to a companyrnexecutive.rn“On a broad spectrum, there has been somewhat of an uptick in coalrnshipments, but those shipments have not reached the river where we’rernfocused on,” said Robert McCoy, the executive vice president and COOrnof Amherst Madison Inc., a marine towing company headquartered inrnCharleston, W.Va., serving the Kanawha and Ohio rivers.