Leo Ryan | March 12, 2018 | Maritime | Breakbulk News
General cargo hits 31,000 tons with Thunder Bay’s diversified cargo strategy.
Located at the head of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway System, the Port of Thunder Bay was long chiefly known as the eastern gateway of choice for grain exports from Canada’s Prairie provinces. Grain throughput has declined from peaks of more than 17 million metric tons in the early 1980s to just 7.2 million tons in 2017 due mainly to changing Canadian export grain trade patterns shifting from Europe to the Far East. But a diversification strategy, bolstered by the Keefer general cargo terminal equipped with a mobile harbor crane since 2012, has steadily transformed the port into a competitive player on North America’s virtual inland seas in breakbulk, project and dimensional cargo.
