Thunder Bay's Harbourmaster is predicting that the 2016 shipping season will prove to be another success.
Guy Jarvis says he is expecting the port to handle about the same amount of grain as last year, which was one of the busier years in the port in the past decade.
“We’re excited that the port is diversifying its cargo,” Jarvis said during an interview with CKPR Radio Monday, adding that this shipping season would see the exporting of a huge crane overseas along with more windmill parts.
This year’s shipping season follows one of the busiest the port has seen in the previous 15 years.
The 2015 season ended with a warmer than average December, which allowed the port to move more than 1.1 tonnes of grain during the final month of that year. That busy December gave the port its second-largest annual volume since 1997.
In total the 2015 shipping season saw about 8 million tonnes of grain flow through the port.
Jarvais said he believes a similar amount of grain will flow through the port this year.
(CKPR Radio)
