The oil boom and pipeline bottleneck has been good to Oklahoma’s Port of Catoosa. The inland river-port — which connects Oklahoma to the Mississippi River — only recently started shipping crude. The first barges bearing oil left the port in July 2011, the Journal Record’s D. Ray Tuttle reports. Now crude is fueling a shipping [...]
Positive economic signs are coming from Tulsa’s Port of Catoosa, an important shipping hub that connects Oklahoma to the Mississippi River via an inland waterway. Combined employment from businesses there has increased 68 percent since the worst of the recession three years ago, the Journal Record‘s D. Ray Tuttle reports: Companies in the energy and [...]
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