Barge collapse still all too common

‘Thor’, after salvage, clearly shows evidence of the typical failure associated with bad loading

More and more project cargo is going by barge, pushed by Europe’s concern with pollution and its congested roads. But dramatic barge failures “are still a regular occurrence” says Carlos Maenhout of BMT Surveys.

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