Cargo Reports – July 2015 – Limestone from Ports – Text & Tabular

July 31, 2015
July 31, 2015 LCA

Lakes Limestone Trade Tops 4 Million Tons Again in July

CLEVELAND—For the second month in a row, shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes topped 4 million tons in July. This is the first time loadings have topped the 4-million-ton mark for more than one month in a shipping season since 2008.

Loadings at U.S. quarries totaled 3.5 million tons, a virtual repeat of a year ago. Shipments from Canadian quarries – 560,000 tons – also were a near carbon copy of a year ago.

Year-to-date the Lakes limestone trade stands at 14 million tons, an increase of 16 percent compared to a year ago. That increase in part reflects just how severely stone shipments were impacted by the near glacial ice that covered the Lakes into May of 2014. Ice also slowed the resumption of the stone trade this spring; several boats in the stone trade did not sail until late April, but the shipping lanes were ice free by May.

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