Article: Barging in: how heavy metal floats up inland waterways to feed the massive maw of Nucor's steel mill.(Feature)

The 14,000-ton Portsmouth pulls into the Port of Morehead City, the barge's belly brimming with gnarled chunks of castaway steel--the spent casings of a rapid-fire industrialized society--hauled from New Jersey by New Canaan, Conn.-based Moran Towing. Into the port flowed 160,457 tons of scrap metal during 2003.

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