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USA: cement shipments in November rose by 8.2%

03 February 2017, Published under Cement News

Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the USA and Puerto Rico in November 2016 were about 7.9Mta, up by 8.2 per cent from sales in November 2015. The leading producing states for Portland and blended cement in November 2016 were Texas, Missouri, California, Florida, and Alabama, in descending order. The leading cement-consuming states (Texas, California, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois, in descending order) received 38 per cent of the November shipments. Sales for January through ...

USA: Portland and blended cement shipments fall in October 2016

26 January 2017, Published under Cement News

US Geological Survey (USGS) reports that the shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in October 2016 were about 9Mt, down by 3.4 per cent from sales in October 2015. The leading producing states in October 2016 were Texas, Missouri, California, Florida, and Michigan, in descending order, and these accounted for about 41 per cent of the national total. The leading cement-consuming states (Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio, in descendin...

USA: preliminary November shipments reach 7.82Mt

19 January 2017, Published under Cement News

Preliminary data from US Geological Survey for the month of November reports that total deliveries of Portland and blended cements reached 7.82Mt to give a total of 87.26Mt for teh first 11 months of 2016. The biggest producing states in decending order were: Missouri 812,043t, California 774,647t and Florida 498,198t. The largest producing district was Idaho-Montana-Nevada-Oregon which output 1.532Mt of cement.

USA: Portland and blended cement shipments in September fall 2.8%

16 December 2016, Published under Cement News

Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the USA and Puerto Rico in September 2016 were about 8.8Mt, down by 2.8 per cent from sales in September 2015. The leading cement-producing states for Portland and blended cement in September 2016 were Texas, Missouri, California, Florida, and Michigan (in descending order} and these accounted for about 41 per cent of the national total. The leading cement-consuming states (Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio, in descending orde...

USA: Portland and blended cement shipments in August rise by 3.1%

17 November 2016, Published under Cement News

Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in August 2016 were 9.4Mt, up by 3.1 per cent from sales in August 2015. The leading producing states for Portland and blended cement in August 2016 were Missouri, Texas, California, Florida and Michigan, in descending order, and these accounted for about 42 per cent of the national total. The leading cement-consuming states, in descending order, were Texas, California, Florida, Ohio and Illinois, whic...

USA: preliminary August cement shipments total 9.41Mt

16 November 2016, Published under Cement News

Preliminary data from the US Geological Survey (USGS) for US shipments of cement in August 2016 estimate that Portland and blended cement totalled 9.41Mt in the month. This is up on July’s cement shipments of Portland and blended cements which reached 7.14Mt. For YTD, end-August, US shipments of cement totalled 61.4Mt. The Mountain and Pacific district had the highest cement produced with1.91Mt during August. California made up the bulk of that output with 0.92Mt of shipments. Missouri was ...

Fiji: clinker shipment from China

15 September 2016, Published under Cement News

A cargo vessel has docked at the Kings Wharf, Suva, bringing in clinker for Tengy Cement from China. The vessel is expected to remain in the port for 7-8 days. According to Vafo-ou Villiame of Carpenters Shipping, “the vessel will be unloading cement clinker for the new cement factory", as reported local news source, The Fiji Sun. Mr Villiame also stated that the ship had not made calls at any other Pacific country. Once unloaded the ship will return directly to China.

US cement shipments for June reach 9.2Mt

08 September 2016, Published under Cement News

Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in June 2016 were about 9.2Mt, up by 2.7 per cent from sales in June 2015, reports the US Geological Survey. The leading cement-consuming states (Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio, in descending order) received about 35.7 per cent of the June shipments. Sales for January through June totalled 43.8Mt, up by 7.4 per cent from the volume in the same period in 2015. The leading producing states...

Israel: Ashdod Port workers refuse to unload cement

19 July 2016, Published under Cement News

A petition has been filed by the management at Ashdod Port, Israel, against its workers, who refused to unload shipments of cement due to claims that they are understaffed. Port management is trying to enforce conditions laid out in a long-standing agreement which says shipments can be unloaded by just two workers. The workers union has claimed that this is unfair as the agreement was drafted when supertankers did not exist and unloading ships now entails far more work than before. This d...

Philippines: Mariveles dry bulk terminal

25 May 2016, Published under Cement News

Sesia Nectar Port Services Inc announced the start of commercial operations at its Mariveles Dry Bulk Terminal in the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB), Philippines. The company began developing the port in 2015. Ramon Atayde, Sesia chairman, said that with the use of mechanised material handlers for faster and more efficient discharge of shipment, the new facility will optimise the operations of dry bulk handling. The new Mariveles terminal will make FAB a viable location for investors as it...