Product
August 16, 2013
HRC Imports by Port and Country
Written by Peter Wright
This is one of an expanded series of analyses, exclusive to the Steel Market Update that is designed to provide a much more comprehensive view of actual volume by product. This will enable a steel buyer or manager to see exactly what came into his immediate vicinity and where it came from. This series of reports includes hot rolled, cold rolled, HDG and other metallic coated, (mainly Galvalume). We will publish these in the same format in four consecutive issues of the Steel Market Update. All volumes are in short tons. In Tables 1 and 2 the smaller volume sources and ports of entry have been removed to make the tables more readable.
Total HR sheet tonnage in June was 227,620 tons, up 10.3 percent from May but down by 5.0 percent from June last year. Table 1 shows the detail by port of entry and country of origin. Canada as usual shipped in the most tonnage which mainly entered Detroit. Korea came in second with 32,766 tons of which 29,915 entered through the port of San Francisco. Tables 1 and 2 are much too comprehensive for a detailed description. The way to read them is as follows. If you are a buyer in Atlanta for example you would learn that very little tonnage came into your area in June, only 1,138 tons into Savannah, 123 tons into Mobile and 1,410 tons into New Orleans.
