Highlights: The Port of Milwaukee
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Highlights: The Port of Milwaukee
The Port of Milwaukee has started the month of June with a lot of excitement. Maersk Line, Limited and Rickmers-Line have formed a partnership to provide breakbulk and project cargo shipping using two newly-built multi-purpose ships. The cargo on these ships will move from the Port of Milwaukee through the St. Lawrence Seaway across the Atlantic Ocean to the Port of Ust Luga, Russia.
Federal Marine Terminals (the Port of Milwaukee’s stevedore) started to load the Maersk Illinois in Milwaukee on Thursday, May 31st. It took several days to lift and stow the roughly 8,000 cubic meters of machinery. The export cargo, two P&H 2800XPC series electric rope shovels , was manufactured in Milwaukee, WI and will eventually be used in coal mines. Once the cargo reaches Russia, the shovels will be railed to Siberia. The Maersk Illinois will be the first US flagged vessel to call the Port of Ust Luga.
These are two of three shovels that will be transported in 2012 from Milwaukee to Ust-Luga, Russia on U.S. flag vessels. The remaining shovel will be loaded in late September on the same vessel or on its twin the Maersk Texas.
The international freight forwarders Dialog Freight International (Canada) Inc. of Calgary, Alberta in partnership with Universal Cargo Services of St. Petersburg, Russia have transported 5-P&H electric rope shovels in the past 2-years for P&H Mining (Joy Global) customers in Russia. Of these, four 2800 series shovels have been shipped directly from the Port of Milwaukee through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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