Gulf Intracoastal Waterway is a water route along the Gulf of Mexico from Carrabelle, Fla., to Brownsville, Tex. This $80-million inland waterway was completed in 1949. It is 12 feet (3.7 meters) deep and 125 feet (38 meters) wide at its bottom. Freight barges and pleasure boats travel 1,065 miles (1,714 kilometers) along the Gulf Coast, safe from the dangers of the open sea. Petroleum and petroleum products are the chief goods carried by the freight barges. Barges from the East and Midwest move down the Mississippi River to the waterway.
See also Texas (Transportation) .
