✨River Levels: A Reliable, Single Source for Your Organization
Individual team members often spend 40 minutes or more each day gathering river data. BargeAI™ provides a consolidated, high-fidelity view in seconds, with 20 years of history available for both visual review and download.
A Trusted View of River Conditions
By integrating NOAA, USGS, and USACE data into a clean, unified interface, River Levels removes uncertainty and gives operators immediate clarity on the conditions that shape every transit decision.
See Today’s Conditions Instantly
Access real-time stage, trend, and constraint information in one place.
Plan with Tomorrow in Mind
Use forecasted river levels available within BargeAI™ and delivered through the Daily Digest to make more confident draft and transit decisions.
Keep Every Team Aligned
Daily Digest summaries provide dispatch, operations, trade and research teams with a shared understanding of river conditions without the manual effort.
River Levels turns river monitoring from a daily chore into a strategic advantage, giving your organization the clarity it needs to move freight efficiently and confidently.
✨Tow Transit Times: Understand the Speed of Commerce. Plan With Precision.
Tow performance changes every day as river conditions shift, lock delays build, and traffic patterns evolve. The Transit Times module in BargeAI™ provides transparent, objective, consistent operational benchmarking.
With this new visibility, teams can:
- Set more accurate ETAs
- Look for asset productivity opportunities
- Build more reliable capacity plans
- Explain delays to customers more clearly
- Strengthen operational and financial performance forecasts
See Real Transit Performance
View transit times by route, vessel type, vessel owner, and horsepower range across the entire industry.
Benchmark Against the Industry
Compare your transit times to regional and system-wide averages to identify strengths and opportunities.
Plan and Communicate With Confidence
Use accurate, data-driven ETAs and performance insights for customer updates, internal assessments, and charter conversations.
The Transit Times module turns raw movement data into actionable insights.
✨Barge Analytics: The Industry’s First View of Barge-Level Movement Patterns
BargeAI™ provides the industry’s only independent, barge-level intelligence, giving operators, commercial teams, and analysts a complete view of how barge movements are evolving across the inland river system.
This visibility creates meaningful advantages in fleet planning, commercial strategy, and operational decision-making.
See Barge Movement Patterns Across the Waterways
Track shifts in barge activity across the system to understand how freight is flowing and how the market is changing. Identify concentrations of activity, emerging corridors, and areas where supply or demand is tightening.
Visualize Fleeting Activity with Heatmaps
Use animated heatmaps of barge pickups and drop-offs to see where barges accumulate or disperse over time. Zoom in to observe activity at individual fleets, or zoom out for a complete, system-wide perspective.
Understand Tow Configurations Over Time
Download indicative changes in tow configuration by towboat and journey over the last three months. See where those changes occurred by mile marker and river to understand operating behavior and fleet deployment patterns.
Gain Competitive Intelligence
Filter movements by operator and horsepower range to identify market activity, uncover sales opportunities, and understand how different carriers are positioning their assets.
Barge Analytics gives your team a level of visibility the industry has never had before, transforming barge-level movement data into insights that drive stronger operational, commercial, and competitive decisions.
✨ Lock Navigator: On-Demand Awareness of Locking River Constraints and Impacts
Lock Navigator gives operators and supply chain managers immediate clarity on locking river behavior so they can plan confidently, keep schedules on track, and move freight more efficiently.
See Every Lock in Real Time
Monitor traffic queues, vessel movements, and pool-to-pool transit times across all locking rivers.
Predict and Plan Ahead
Use data-driven insights to adjust schedules with confidence and stay ahead of emerging constraints.
Benchmark and Improve
Compare performance across locks, fleets, or time periods to uncover patterns, strengthen planning, and support more efficient fleet operations.
Lock Navigator helps operators move more freight with greater visibility, stronger planning, and fewer operational surprises.
✨Barge Flows: A Systemwide View of How Freight Moves
Barge Flows gives commercial, operations, and trading teams a unified, week-by-week view of how barges move across the inland waterway system.
With real flow data, map visuals, and downloadable analytics, teams gain a clearer understanding of freight dynamics and the forces shaping barge markets.
Analyze Weekly Barge Movements Across Locking Rivers
See weekly totals of barge movements on selected locking rivers with a systemwide map, data download, and lock-by-lock detail. Understand how traffic is progressing, shifting, or concentrating across key corridors.
Get One-Click Flow Downloads Across the Entire System
Download weekly barge flows through every lock on the inland waterways system with a single click. Use this intelligence to support planning, forecasting, and market assessments.
Visualize Flows by River, Direction, and Time Period
View directional lock flows by river to understand how barges are moving through each system. Customize time windows to reveal patterns, acceleration, or slowdowns in traffic.
Understand Lower Mississippi Tow Traffic
Access detailed insights into how tow traffic is moving on the Lower Mississippi River, including flows for mainline grain tows and liquids cargo carriers. See how freight patterns are evolving on one of the system’s most important corridors.
Get Weekly Barge Freight and Flows Intelligence
Subscribers receive a weekly email with grain barge freight forecasts and insights into the fundamentals that drive barge supply and demand. These forward-looking indicators support traders, analysts, and risk managers as they navigate market volatility and identify emerging opportunities. The content is based on proprietary data and available only to BargeAI™ subscribers.
Barge Flows transforms real movement data into clear, systemwide insight, helping commercial and operations teams understand freight dynamics, anticipate market shifts, and make more informed decisions.
✨ Grain Barge Movements: See the Flows That Shape Your Market
Grain Barge Movements gives shippers, traders, and fleet operators a clear, data-driven view of how grain moves across the inland waterways system.
See Where Grain Is Moving
Visualize grain-related barge activity by commodity across key corridors and river systems.
Spot Market and Capacity Shifts Early
Identify year-over-year changes in grain volumes that signal evolving demand, timing, or corridor behavior.
Compare Grain Volumes Across Years
Analyze up to ten different years at once to understand how current locking and unload volumes compare to normal seasonal patterns based on data from USDA and USACE.
Grain Barge Movements turns the river’s most important commodity flows into actionable intelligence so your team can stay ahead of market shifts with confidence.
Grain Export Inspections: Navigate a Complex Data Set with Ease
The Grain Export Inspections module brings decades of USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) data into one clean, intuitive interface.
Traders, analysts, and logistics teams can quickly explore trends, compare regions, and understand export dynamics without wrestling with raw files or complicated source tables.
All Data in One Place
Access export inspection data through a single, streamlined interface.
Navigate with Powerful Filters
Use simple controls to filter by USDA Region, USDA Port, Destination Country, Transportation Mode, and Commodity.
Choose the Timeframe You Need
View data by market year, calendar year, or year to date to support seasonal analysis and year-over-year comparisons.
Download Clean, Organized Data Back to 1999
Export structured datasets instantly for further analysis, reporting, or model integration.
See Both Annual and Monthly Trends
Switch between monthly and annual views to understand inspection patterns, timing, and export seasonality.
Grain Export Inspections turns a complex federal dataset into accessible, actionable insight, helping your team move quickly from raw information to informed decisions.