Port Manatee handles corn imports

Ports

Wednesday, November 21, 2012
   It's a bit like hauling coal to Newcastle, as the British would say, when one thinks of importing corn into the United States through a port on the Gulf of Mexico.    But the Port of Manatee on Tampa Bay said this week the 620-foot-long ship King Fraser docked at Port Manatee is discharging more than 52,000 tons of Brazilian-produced corn at its docks.    That's unusual for a country that according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Transportation Report expo...
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