Because of heavy rains, it took four days to unload the barge, the hull rising imperceptibly as the crane clawed out the coal. Old Zhu then hightailed it back along the Yangtze to the canal.

On the Schuylkill Canal, coal barges would pass through Schuylkill Haven. Parkway, a wide concourse at the center of town, was once part of the canal. “Crossing each other and running through ...

While Donald Trump’s talk of taking back the Panama Canal has been keeping Secretary of State Marco Rubio busy, tonnage ...

Commercial barges have been banned from a canal in West Yorkshire after a spate of fish deaths were recorded. The Canal and River Trust (CRT) said in just one incident last month dozens of fish ...