North Carolina’s ports saw increased shipment volumes last year. WHQR’s Michelle Bliss reports that container movements were up 11 percent over 2010 and general breakbulk cargo amounts increased by 8 percent.
To be precise, last year the Port of Wilmington moved 287,467 standard size containers known as twenty-foot equivalent unit containers. The port also moved more than 1.7 million tons of bulk and breakbulk cargo.
State Port Authority officials say that Wilmington has seen a revival in agricultural products, including more than 400,000 tons of animal feed and grain imported and trucked to livestock producers across the region last year.
In Morehead City, more than 130,000 tons of soft wood chips have been sent to Turkey since July. The materials are eventually manufactured into medium density fiberboard.
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