Buckyballs will be a bulk commodity, like oatmeal.

Barges are well suited for the movement of large quantities of bulk commodities and raw materials at relatively low cost.

Inland water transport is still used for the transportation of bulk commodities e.g. grains, coal, and ore.

Commercial water transportation now is limited to the shipment of bulk commodities on two routes.

It might be thought that there is not much need for R&T by an established producer of bulk commodities.

"Coal is a bulk commodity and it weighs quite a bit and requires a lot of space," she says.

General manifests, local freights, grain, coal, and other bulk commodities make up the rest of the traffic.

Large farms, selling bulk commodities, with pollution risks and herd health problems represent a future that we must work to avoid.

In recent years, however, the trucking industry has taken over more and more of that business, leaving the port to handle bulk commodities like fuel.