The Port of Thunder Bay is on a record-breaking pace for moving potash this year.
The western Lake Superior port handled more than 175,557 tonnes during the month of November, the port authority reported in a news release.
With December results still to come, the port authority said the potash tally has already exceeded last year’s all-time record seasonal total by more than 300,000 tonnes.
Nearly half of the port’s total potash volume was transported in the last three months. The authority called October “the most successful in recent history” with cargo volumes 22 per cent than any other month in the past two years of the potash surge.
September and November were also busy months at Keefer Terminal in handling cargoes of steel pipe and rail, wind turbine blades, and phosphate fertilizer. Keefer’s year-to-date cargo volume is currently over three times the five-year average.
Grain shipments to-date in 2023 has exceeded six million tonnes, a 20 per cent increase over the same period last year.
