In an historic action that will protect people's health and the environment, and benefit riverfront communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a plan to remove 4.3 million cubic yards of highly contaminated ...
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Within the next month, expansion is set to begin at Cargill’s Morris, Manitoba, farm service centre. The expansion will include increases to both rail capacity and grain storage. General Manager Richard Reynolds says the expansion ...
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All US ethanol regions on Monday were assessed within 10 cents of their previous assessment for the first time since March 11, as volatility that has plagued the market for two months softened. The front-month New York Harbor ethanol ...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for March 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with March 2013. Intermodal traffic in March totaled 1,025,907 containers ...
US over-the-counter thermal coal prices changed little Thursday, as competing natural gas futures got a boost from end-of-season gas storage stocks falling to 822 Bcf, a level not seen since 2003. The increased consumption of gas this ...
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Colombian coal exports in February fell 44% month on month to 4.067 million mt, which was 15.1% higher year on year, data from statistics agency DANE showed. The fall to the the lowest monthly level since March 2013 came amid a ban on ...
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In the interests of transparency, would you re-consider your decision not to disclose the container-carrying capacity of the Port Botany rail line? As you are aware, the Australian Rail Track Corporation, the line's operator, declines to ...
The new Conti EcoPlus HS3 steer tire completes the company's line of third generation fuel efficient truck tires in North America The 2014 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) is over. But there is still plenty to look forward to, says Paul ...
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The Turkish scrap import market moved up Thursday after a flurry of sales by European merchants. With mills still requiring April shipments, a number of bookings were heard in the market. One was confirmed coming out of the UK a couple ...
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Australian miner Fortescue has announced that it has officially opened its 40 million mt per year Kings Valley iron ore mine in its Solomon Hub in the Pilbara region, Western Australia, marking the completion of the $9.2 billion expansion ...
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The number of coal carloads that US railroads originated for the week ending Saturday totaled 113,414, down 0.6% from the prior week, but up 3% from the same week a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. For the ...
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Canadian railways carried 25.3 million metric tons of freight in January, down 2.7 percent from the same month last year. The drop in shipments occurred despite the strong growth in traffic received from the United States. Non-intermodal ...
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Central Appalachian thermal coal spot prices closed mixed Monday, with the April barge contract rising 70 cents/st and the rail-delivered (CSX) April contract falling 15 cents/st. The front-month river-rail spread widened to $3.85/st, up ...
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February production of corn-based ethanol in the US lowered by 125.01 million gallons, or 10.76%, to an 11-month low of 1.04 billion gallons, US Environmental Protection Agency data showed Friday. The drop in ethanol production was ...
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Central Appalachian thermal coal prices for April delivery fell to fresh near-term lows on Friday, as both the CAPP rail (CSX) and CAPP barge spot contracts were seen trading in the session. CSX physical April fell 25 cents/st to ...
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