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Wheat makes it to Tunisia

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sourgum

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This bulk carrier loaded to the gills with Canadian wheat from Duluth, MN is arriving in port SFAX, Tunisia. That port is about 200 miles northwest of Tripoli. She left Montreal CAN on 21 Dec and made the trip across the Atlantic arriving this evening. She supposedly had 30,000 tons wheat on board, hopefully none got wet on the trip across the pond. Someone said the Welland Canal closes today , so that leaves no way for Great Lakes carriers to go overseas with grain. So maybe grain will go down the Ohio R or Mississippi by barge now to New Orleans then into overseas ships since those rivers don't close over winter. Our commodity markets sure seem to be unusually strong for some reason ,maybe these exports are part of the reason.
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Enjoyed your updates on this.

The Mississippi does, or used to, close up here? Minnesota.

Frankly the river lost much value in the 1990s, the unit trains to the Pacific northwest took over and run all year around. I rember how grain prices just sat stil over winter in the past, while the river was froze up.

Markets are a mystery to me, looked dismal in early spring, on fire and not slowing down now in winter. Looks like the funds are looking for places to shove money and are shoving this way. Will be just as fast going down when they invest in something else.

Paul
 
Back in the day most of our grain would go to Shakopee terminal.

I remember when the nearby elevator would fill, we would wait in line for a semi to come, it would fill up and then there was room for another 4-5 farmers to unload.

Now a days farmers come with a pair of 700 by gravity wagons, couldn’t unload one fella.

Paul
 
No wonder wheat is so cheap no matter how efficient that thing is it’s still a hell of a fuel bill not to mention the fuel ain't even the beginning of the cost to operate that thing not to mention all the people you pay to load unload and operate the ship
 
For some reason I like hanging around those ships. We spent a day at Duluth a few years ago and another at the Soo locks. It's amazing to me how that much rusty iron can float empty and then they fill them up. We went through an old ship at Duluth and there's another one turned into a museum at the locks that had two life boats from the Edmond Fitzgerald just bent, smashed and twisted.

Think I'll stick with dry land.
 
I thought they couldn't load them to the gills in Duluth. There's somewhere along the St. Lorentz seaway that they would bottom out. Thought they loaded most and then topped them off when they got somewhere out by the Atlantic.
 
Yes, this ship is a "salty". It is 625 ft total length. The "lakers" are much bigger several are 1000 ft length. The captain's manifest listed this ships draft at 9.5 meters for the whole voyage. I am not certain but think that is the maximum draft you can have and make it thru the Soo Locks without dragging bottom.
 
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