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garbear wrote:I see the H. Lee White is upbound in the St. Lawrence River near Clayton, NY showing a Conneaut destination again.

garbear wrote:H. Lee White loaded pellets in Conneaut and is heading for Quebec City. Her 2nd trip to Quebec City this season.

garbear wrote:

Jon Paul wrote:The Port Reports for 9/29 has American Mariner arriving in Conneaut from Buffalo. Are they loading pellets for QC delivery?

She unloaded wheat in Buffalo from Superior. This would be her 3rd pellet load from Conneaut down the Seaway this season.

Jon Paul wrote:The Port Reports for 9/29 has American Mariner arriving in Conneaut from Buffalo. Are they loading pellets for QC delivery?

Jon Paul wrote:

garbear wrote:

Denny wrote:If I'm not mistaken and I hope not, I believe this could be the first load this season out of Silver Bay for Quebec? With the ore from Two Harbors being shipped down to Conneaut and then also being reloaded onto Canadian lakers for the trip to Quebec I have a few questions on this trade. With the CSL Assinbioine loading now from Silver Bay to Quebec one of my questions is "Could they just load ore at Silver Bay with the footers and then have then bring that ore down to Conneaut and then reload it onto a Canadian ship to take to Quebec?" Okay I not into the basics and details like you all are on the type of ore they use as I know its different type of ore they use no doubt from Silver Bay and Two Harbors but, just me but I'm thinking why not just load the ore into a footer at Silver Bay and then have it deliver to Conneaut and then reload into a Canadian ship for the trip to Quebec? Again just my two cents only on

I had posted about her being the first Canadian boat to load in Silver Bay in my Port Report. Probably different ore. Two Harbors it's Minntac that goes to Conneaut and Silver Bay would be Northshore pellets.

This possibly could indicate a new market for Northshore Pellets. There is no end user in QC so this must be a load destined for transhipment overseas.
Worldwide iron ore prices remain at a 5 yr high and maybe we will see more of these runs.

garbear wrote:

Denny wrote:If I'm not mistaken and I hope not, I believe this could be the first load this season out of Silver Bay for Quebec? With the ore from Two Harbors being shipped down to Conneaut and then also being reloaded onto Canadian lakers for the trip to Quebec I have a few questions on this trade. With the CSL Assinbioine loading now from Silver Bay to Quebec one of my questions is "Could they just load ore at Silver Bay with the footers and then have then bring that ore down to Conneaut and then reload it onto a Canadian ship to take to Quebec?" Okay I not into the basics and details like you all are on the type of ore they use as I know its different type of ore they use no doubt from Silver Bay and Two Harbors but, just me but I'm thinking why not just load the ore into a footer at Silver Bay and then have it deliver to Conneaut and then reload into a Canadian ship for the trip to Quebec? Again just my two cents only on

I had posted about her being the first Canadian boat to load in Silver Bay in my Port Report. Probably different ore. Two Harbors it's Minntac that goes to Conneaut and Silver Bay would be Northshore pellets.

Denny wrote:If I'm not mistaken and I hope not, I believe this could be the first load this season out of Silver Bay for Quebec? With the ore from Two Harbors being shipped down to Conneaut and then also being reloaded onto Canadian lakers for the trip to Quebec I have a few questions on this trade. With the CSL Assinbioine loading now from Silver Bay to Quebec one of my questions is "Could they just load ore at Silver Bay with the footers and then have then bring that ore down to Conneaut and then reload it onto a Canadian ship to take to Quebec?" Okay I not into the basics and details like you all are on the type of ore they use as I know its different type of ore they use no doubt from Silver Bay and Two Harbors but, just me but I'm thinking why not just load the ore into a footer at Silver Bay and then have it deliver to Conneaut and then reload into a Canadian ship for the trip to Quebec? Again just my two cents only on this.

garbear wrote:

Jon Paul wrote:Thanks for the update garbear. With the numbers I've crunched concerning the boats unloading in Conneaut it would seem that the majority of pellets being delivered are being reloaded into the boats going to QC.

Those are boats that would have loaded in Two Harbors instead of Conneaut. I've only got 6 boats to load in Two Harbors for Quebec City. They've had boats for the Soo, Nanticoke, and Hamilton, but that's it for QC.

Jon Paul wrote:Thanks for the update garbear. With the numbers I've crunched concerning the boats unloading in Conneaut it would seem that the majority of pellets being delivered are being reloaded into the boats going to QC.