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  • use in history of boxing
    • Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
      In boxing: Boxing’s legal status

      …the fighters might avoid arrest; barges were also used as fight venues because they could be located in waters outside U.S. legal jurisdiction and fights could be held unimpeded.

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  • water transportation
    • Oudegracht
      In canals and inland waterways: Inland waterway craft

      Powered barges, towing one or more unpowered (dumb) barges, were introduced on rivers with adequate lock chambers, but on artificial canals double (or treble) lockage operations made this method uneconomical, and, except for local lighterage (loading, transporting, and unloading) or maintenance duties, dumb barges are little…

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    • coal
      • coal mine
        In coal mining: Barges

        Rivers and lakes have long played a major role in the transport of bulk commodities like coal in Germany, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Canada, and the United States. The costs of barge transport depend on the number of barges being towed by a single…

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    • petroleum
      • oil refinery
        In petroleum refining: Bulk transportation

        …afford many opportunities for using barges, a very inexpensive method of transportation. The Mississippi River in the United States and the Rhine and Seine rivers in Europe are especially suited to barges of more than 5,000 tons (37,000 barrels). Each barge may be divided into several compartments so that a…

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