Port of Kansas City
USKCK🇺🇸USA
About Port of Kansas City
This inland port is located on the Missouri River at river mile 367.1, near the confluence with the Kansas River. It serves as a key node on marine highway M-70, facilitating barge traffic for bulk commodities.
Background
The Port of Kansas City is an inland port on the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri at river mile 367.1, near the confluence with the Kansas River. Kansas City, the second-largest rail hub and third-largest trucking hub in the country, is on marine highway M-70, which extends as far as Pittsburgh and intersects M-55 at St. Louis, allowing shipping to New Orleans, Chicago, Minneapolis and connections to major cities all over the eastern United States. The Missouri inland waterway allows for barge traffic as far upriver as Sioux City, Iowa; however, most of the commercial traffic on the Missouri is concentrated between Kansas City and St. Louis.Identification
- UN/LOCODE
- USKCK
- Country
- 🇺🇸USA
- Time Zone
- UTC-5
Region
- Subdivision
- US-KS
Classification
- Type
- Port
References & Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Q7231168 →
- Wikipedia
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