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American River Transportation Co., LLC (ARTCO) is a subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). It provides river transportation, including barges and a shipyard; it also operates towboats on the Illinois River, Mississippi River, and Ohio River. [2]
Metropolis is a city and the county seat in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It is located by the Ohio River. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,969, [2] down from 6,537 in 2010. [3] Metropolis is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area in Southern Illinois.
In 1984, Ingram purchased Ohio Barge Line, formerly owned by U.S. Steel. Neil N. Diehl came on board as Chairman Emeritus of IBCO to oversee the acquisition. [3] During the 1980s, Ingram bought many boats and barges from several different transportation companies, allowing IBCO to become the third largest for-hire river carrier in the U.S.
This line was sometimes referred to as the "3 I Line", in reference to a corporate predecessor, the "Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad". That portion of the line west of Kankakee to Moronts, Illinois , roughly parallels the Illinois River in Northern Illinois and was used, in large part, to transport corn toward eastern markets.
The original alignment followed (from south–north) what used to be part of IL 1, IL 140, IL 25, IL 44, IL 51, and IL 46 before terminating at US 12. [5] These state routes were eventually either truncated or removed as of 1935. [6] That same year, US 45 was extended north from Des Plaines, Illinois to Michigan.
Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder Tug-Barge, entering the Port of Cleveland in June 2017. The Pathfinder was built in 1952 as the SS J. L. Mauthe for Pickands Mather's subsidiary, the Interlake Steamship Co. The list of ships owned and operated by Pickands Mather consists of barges and freighters operating on the Great Lakes in the United States and Canada.
Massac County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 14,169. [1] Established in 1843 and named for a French fort founded in the 18th century, its county seat is Metropolis. [2]
The Barker and Tregurtha families, owners of Interlake Steamship, chartered the 418-foot (127 m), 14,000 short tons (13,000 t) barge Montville to provide this new service on an as-needed basis. [ 7 ] In April 2019, Interlake Steamship announced construction of a 639-foot (195 m) long, 75-foot (23 m) wide River-class self-unloading bulk freighter .