newpylong wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 11:53 am
What has to happen for BIW to get more inbound steel? They sure seem to build a lot for the lack of inbound raw steel coming in via rail. Do they truck it over from that new customer now instead of direct at Hardings?
All the steel for Hardings goes to ASA now, except for a few moves per year of heavier material which is unloaded at Hardings still. When they expanded the fab plant a few years ago, they lost a lot of the storage space so they worked a deal with ASA to unload there so they could truck it to Hardings or the ship yard.
BIW is already doing a ton of steel by rail, quite a bit gets transloaded at Casco Bay Steel in S. Portland (Or at least it used to when CP was refusing to install a switch for ASA) and I want to say they unload some down in Saco as well. When ASA first opened I heard they wanted to put in a second track from New Meadows road and I think a short spur on the east end of the facility as well to unload more steel, however thats the last I heard of it. The current operation, results in FGLK spotting the cars one day and tying down there for the day. Then the following day they take the empties back to the interchange so the cars don't sit idle for long. BIW/ASA crews work overnight to unload the cars and they pull material as its needed out of the facility as time goes by.