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From: Eric
Location: MN
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Remote Name: 68.191.149.25
Date: 07.29.06
Time: 01:38:26 AM
For the past one or two shipping seasons it has been common to see Canadian straight-deckers load taconite pellets at CN in Two Harbors/Duluth and BN in Superior for shipment to Quebec City, where the iron ore pellets are transshipped to post-seaway-sized oceangoing vessels for overseas export. That may be what this is for. There's another possiblity: this year, with the Goviken and now Federal Yukon loading ore pellet cargos directly at BN's Superior dock, Canadian ships (I believe the Atlantic Erie just did this) are also presumably loading pellets there which those ocean ships will "top-off" with at Quebec City. This will get them down to their maximum drafts for their voyage across the ocean, something they can't do on the relatively shallow channels of the Great Lakes/Seaway system.
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