Steel Mills
January 30, 2014
Essar Steel Algoma Trucking Coal to Mill Due to Weather
Written by Sandy Williams
Essar Steel Algoma has resorted to trucks to get crucial coal shipments around the frozen Soo Locks to the mill. Extreme winter weather resulted in fast forming ice levels, delaying end of season freighter shipments of coal beyond the January 15 closing of the locks.
A contingency plan was enacted to have cargo offloaded at the Carbide Dock in Salt St. Marie, said Essar Steel Algoma spokesperson Brenda Stenta in an email to SMU. The company is currently in the process of transferring the coal to the mill “to support production levels for the balance of the winter season,” said Stenta.
