U.S.-Flag Carriage Down Again in June
- While certainly not a June swoon, U.S.-Flag carriage on the Great Lakes again fell short of the level of a year ago. The
major U.S.-Flag Lakes lines carried 12.5 million net tons of dry-bulk cargo in June, a decrease of 3.2 percent
compared to the corresponding period last year. Since the resumption of the dry-bulk trades on February 7, U.S.-Flag
carriage stands at 39.8 million tons, a decrease of 2.6 percent.
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- Iron ore cargos for the steel industry were down just slightly in June, and for the season are essentially unchanged.
There was a slight increase in stone cargos and that small upturn brought the 2000 season-to-date total in line with
1999's end-of-June tally.
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- The seemingly large drop off in western coal cargos merely reflects that June 1999 was a near record month.
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- U.S.-FLAG CARRIAGE
JUNE AND SEASON-TO-DATE: 2000 - 1999
(net tons)
Commodity
| June 2000
| June 1999
| S-T-D 2000
| S-T-D 1999
|
| Iron Ore (a) | 6,132,623
| 6,288,925
| 21,350,714
| 21,461,047
|
| Coal - Western | 1,297,053
| 1,656,416
| 4,455,567
| 4,832,441
|
| Coal - Eastern | 944,949
| 1,013,701
| 2,450,177
| 2,814,494
|
Total - Coal
| 2,242,002
| 2,670,117
| 6,905,744
| 7,646,935
|
| Limestone, Gypsum | 3,444,615
| 3,257,473
| 9,493,158
| 9,475,427
|
| Cement | 443,702
| 432,259
| 1,498,993
| 1,553,618
|
| Salt | 134,619
| 163,000
| 397,043
| 493,000
|
| Sand | 25,902
| 33,367
| 66,707
| 66,722
|
| Grain | 54,554
| 50,920
| 70,876
| 123,352
|
| Totals | 12,478,017
| 12,896,061
| 39,783,235
| 40,820,101
|
(a) Includes Lorain/Cleveland shuttle.
ggn@lcaships.com
