Agricultural shipments through the St. Lawrence Seaway are up significantly for the first eight months of the year.
Deputy Administrator Craig Middlebrook tells Brownfield grain movement has increased nearly 30 percent and potash has grown by almost 270 percent through August.
“There’s a lot of demand on the market right now for fertilizers and potash materials so I think the seaway is helping to fill that need,” he says.
Canada is the world’s largest producer of potash which Middlebrook says mainly moves through Thunder Bay in Lake Superior.
