Business View Magazine - July 2023

178 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 7 MERICAN WATERWAYS OPERATORS ( AWO) hen Americans think of how the commodities on which we all rely are transported to where they need to be, they often think first of trucks and trains. Given everyday experience, this is understandable – we all share the roads with heavy trucks, and many of us encounter freight trains traveling on railroad tracks, sometimes intersecting the roads we drive on. Meanwhile, most Americans, even those who live near major commercial waterways, don’t encounter a tugboat, towboat or barge in the course of their day-to-day lives. W GBOAT, TOWBOAT BARGE INDUSTRY: OWERFUL IMPACT OUGH AMERICA’S WATERWAYS