Radcliffe R Latimer

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Mr Link
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Re: Radcliffe R Latimer

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So after reading hausen's post, it seems likely that the load is pet coke and not coal.
Mr Link
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Re: Radcliffe R Latimer

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The McInnis cement plant. It's a fairly new plant, which started production in 2017. The kilns were designed to be fired on pet coke, but apparently they are using, or at least trying coal now.

As a side note, St Marys Cement (Canada) Inc and McInnis Cement created a joint venture in December 2020 to market their cement in North America. It will be interesting to see if that affects their marine shipments at all. McInnis has been using NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers to transport their product, while St Marys uses their own vessels (operated by Fettes Shipping) on the Canadian side, and Port City Marine Services on the US side. My hunch is that long term contracts may stay in place, but some destinations may change, if it is more efficient for a St Marys plant to serve a McInnis terminal, or vice versa.
hausen
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Re: Radcliffe R Latimer

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There appears to be a McInnis cement plant just east of Port Daniel.

In recent years Midwest Energy has been loading petroleum coke from refineries in Minnesota and Montana onto ships bound for various cement plants around the Great Lakes/Seaway system. If recall is correct, the cement plants at Charlevoix, MI and at Bath, ON have been the primary such destinations. The petroleum coke is presumably used to fire the kilns that turn limestone, clay, slag, etc. into cement clinker (which is then pulverized to make cement powder).

It's quite possible that this load aboard the Latimer is an expansion of that trade to a new customer.
miboatnerd

Radcliffe R Latimer

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The Latimer is currently in Lake Superior loaded with coal from Superior. Their AIS is showing a destination of Port Daniel, QC. I've never heard of this port. What's there that receives coal?
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