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The Waterways Journal Weekly
Throughout the day-long conference, speakers from industry, government, and economists acknowledged uncertainties on the horizon, but they projected a positive future for the transportation industry on both the brown-water and blue-water sides.
Beaux Jones, president and CEO of Baton Rouge-based The Water Institute, discussed the uncertainty of long-term weather forecasting. Instead of picking one set of data—with the most alarming forecast often garnering the most attention—Jones suggested picking several different scenarios, then predicting what could happen and how to deal with it by considering weather and operational factors, such as equipment failures. Full article here.