Dry cargo news

K+S Potash Canada GP (KSPC) has received the first 177 of 531 custom built railcars at its Legacy Project mine site.

According to the Ukrainian Grain Association, the volume of grain exports from Russia totalled 24.551 million t since that start of 2016/17 MY.

BNSF Railway is to pay US$1 million following polluted waterways allegedly caused by coal from the company’s open-topped rail cars.

Voith was chosen by SsangYong Cement to engineer and install a belt conveyor drive and controller system in its Donghae plant in South Korea.

Logistec signs 10-year agreement to become the new terminal operator at Cleveland Bulk Terminal.

The Georgia Ports Authority and the Virginia Port Authority filed on 24 February 2017 with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to create the “East Coast Gateway Terminal Agreement.”

CIMBRIA has opened a new office in Casablanca, Morocco, effective 1 February 2017.

thyssenkrupp has announced that the company has reached agreement with Ternium on the sale of the CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico steel plant in Brazil.

Nikiforos has entered into a spot voyage contract for transporting approximately 40 030 t of dry bulk cargo from Middle East to Subcontinent.

Bahri Dry Bulk and Koninklijke Bunge have announced they have signed definitive agreements forming a joint venture to establish an ocean freight supplier for dry bulk import and export flows in and out of the Middle East region.