{"id":54314,"date":"2025-01-09T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/great-lakes-2024-iron-ore-trade-dips-2-5-pct\/54314\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:43:48","slug":"great-lakes-2024-iron-ore-trade-dips-2-5-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/great-lakes-2024-iron-ore-trade-dips-2-5-pct\/54314\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes 2024 Iron Ore Trade Dips 2.5 PCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-01-08T11:11:15.0000000\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n            <span class=\"date\">January 8, 2025<\/span>&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2025-01-08T11:11:15.0000000\"\/>&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n                <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        (c) LCA&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong><em>Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 4.6 million tons in December, a decrease of 4.5 percent compared to a year ago. Shipments were just slightly above the 5-year average for the month.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The year-end total for the iron ore trade stands at 49.8 million tons, a decrease of 2.5 percent compared to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the trade\u2019s 5-year average, 2024 iron ore loadings were up 3.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1880, Lake Carriers\u2019 has represented the U.S.-flag Great Lakes fleet, which today can move more than 90 million tons of cargos annually that are the foundation of American industry, infrastructure, and power: iron ore, stone, coal, cement, and other dry bulk materials such as grain, salt, and sand.\u202f More information is available at\u202f<a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"fr-green fr-strong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lcaships.com\"><em>www.lcaships.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; January 8, 2025&#13; &#13; &#13; (c) LCA&#13; Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 4.6 million tons in December, a decrease of 4.5 percent compared to a year ago. Shipments were just slightly above the 5-year average for the month. The year-end total for the iron ore trade stands at 49.8 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54314","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\/54314","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=54314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/54315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}