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Ed Whitmore of Norfolk Tug Company, stands atop his modified barge at his dock in Norfolk, Va., Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008. Whitmore is intent on reducing truck traffic on Virginia’s often traffic-choked Interstate 64 by sending goods by barge up the James..
