{"id":38494,"date":"2024-02-01T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T03:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/us-flag-great-lakes-shipping-up-6-5-in-2023\/38494\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T06:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T03:44:47","slug":"us-flag-great-lakes-shipping-up-6-5-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/us-flag-great-lakes-shipping-up-6-5-in-2023\/38494\/","title":{"rendered":"US-flag Great Lakes Shipping Up 6.5% in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-01-31T22:30:15.0000000\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">January 31, 2024<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2024-01-31T22:30:15.0000000\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Photo: Lake Carriers\u2019 Association)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Cargo volumes moved by U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters in 2023 increased 6.5% compared to 2022, according to latest figures from trade group the Lake Carriers\u2019 Association (LCA).<\/p>\n<p>The 81.4 million tons of cargo transported by the U.S. laker fleet 2023 was 1.2% above the fleet\u2019s five-year average, LCA said.<\/p>\n<p>Iron ore cargos totaled 42.4 million tons, an increase of 13.4% compared to a year earlier, while limestone shipments increased by 3.9% to 24.6 million tons. Sand shipments increased by 12.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Coal cargos were down 9.7% to 8.4 million tons. Salt and grain cargos were down by 5.8% and 11.8%, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cement shipments were a near match to 2022 at 3.7 million tons.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib\" style=\"width: 913px;\"><span class=\"fr-img-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/file\/2024\/02\/1706759087_105_US-flag-Great-Lakes-Shipping-Up-65-in-2023.jpg\"\/><span class=\"fr-inner\"><em>(Source: Lake Carriers\u2019 Association)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 31, 2024 (Photo: Lake Carriers\u2019 Association) Cargo volumes moved by U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters in 2023 increased 6.5% compared to 2022, according to latest figures from trade group the Lake Carriers\u2019 Association (LCA). The 81.4 million tons of cargo transported by the U.S. laker fleet 2023 was 1.2% above the fleet\u2019s five-year average, LCA &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/38495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}