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Thunder Bay port grain shipments set record

The port handled 9.2 million tonnes of grain last year
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The Port of Thunder Bay, once the main export route for Canadian grain, set a record for grain shipments last year.

The port handled 9.2 million tonnes of grain in eight elevators, up from 7.9 million tonnes in 2019.

The port has reversed a trend of moving less grain. In 2010 the port moved 5.5 million tonnes of grain.

Thunder Bay lost its grain export title when Asian markets were tapped and Vancouver became the top grain handling port.

The grain trend reverses a declining port and is good news for 900 employees. Coal movement of 779,000 tonnes declined 63,000 tonnes year over year. In 2012, the port moved just over one million tonnes of coal.

Potash shipments of 400,000 tonnes last year fell 25,000 tonnes but were up from 313,000 tonnes in 2010.
 
Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net

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