A mixture of freight is retaining the Port of Thunder Bay buzzing heading into the later phases of the 2024 delivery season.
In releasing its September cargo statistics, the port authority mentioned Keefer Terminal, its transloading facility, was a busy place final month in dealing with inbound shipments of metal rail and pipe, mining gear, and phosphate fertilizer headed for Western and Northern Canada locations.
The authority mentioned Keefer bested final yr’s month-to-month report of dealing with dry bulk cargo with extra cargo on the best way earlier than season’s finish. The first commodity being moved is fertilizer, which is railed and trucked west to farmers on the Prairies.
Potash and grain shipments remained sturdy in September with the port dealing with the most important cargo throughput for that individual month since 2016.
“September’s monthly and year-to-date potash tallies set standards not seen in the Port of Thunder Bay before,” mentioned the port authority in a launch.
Motion of main commodities by way of the western Lake Superior port are up throughout the board. Grain shipments, so far for 2014, quantity to greater than 4.9 million tonnes in comparison with 4.5 million tonnes throughout the identical timespan final yr. Potash cargoes, for the yr up to now, numbers greater than 1.2 million tonnes in comparison with in extra of 1 million tonnes in 2023.
Cargoes of each common and dry bulk cargoes by way of Keefer is greater than 115,000 tonnes up till the tip of September, in comparison with nearly 80,000 tonnes dealt with final yr.
Cruise ship exercise stays on a constructive notice for the native tourism trade as 5 vessels visited Thunder Bay in September.
