Western Railroad Discussion > Top 10 Exporters from USA 2014

As per the Journal of Commerce June1 2015 these are the top 10 exporters from US by TEU'S

1. America Chung Nam            325400 Teus    Waste paper to Far East for recycling
2.Koch Industries                    239800             Lumber products,waste paper and cotton
3.International Paper               157300              Paper products incl packageing
4.Delong                                111900              Grain and seed export
5.Denison International            104400              Waste paper for recycling
6.Dupont                                102500              Chemicals and plastics
7.Meadwestvaco/rocktenn         93800              Waste paper
8.Sims Metal                           84400              Metal and electronic recycling
9.Newport CN Intl.                    80500              Paper and metal recycling
10. Potential Industires             78200             Paper recycling

FYI

Dale Smith



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/15 10:58 by mearsksealand.

Wow, that's a lot of export!  One wonders how much is being moved to the ports via rail.  BTW, the Mead-Westvaco/RockTenn company's new name is "WestRock" .... I work for their paper mill in West Point, Va. where we ship around 200 trailer loads out per day of "ROLL-STOCK" (large, brown paper rolls) and also up to 33 fifty-foot boxcar loads out a day, destined for boxplants all over N. America (US, Canada, Mexico) as well as overseas destinations.  WestRock's three plants in Virginia (H.Q. state for this company) are in West Point (served by NS), Hopewell (served by both NS and CSXT), and Covington (served by CSXT and Buckingham Branch RR), although through mergers since the late 1990s RockTenn's scope of plants is nationwide.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/15 10:53 by rbx551985.

So we import junk and export garbage.

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Koch Indusries  is the owner of Georgia Pacific, which is a huge exporter of timber related products.

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Pretty much. 

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A Boeing 787 isn't garbage.  Nor is life saving vaccine or cancer medicine. Nor any number of Hollywood movies.

Well, Hollywood movies ARE mostly junk.

"A Boeing 787 isn't garbage. Nor is life saving vaccine or cancer medicine. Nor any number of Hollywood movies."

Boeing 787s are how many TEU equivalents? How many drugs and vaccines come via shipping boxes not in aircraft? Look at the list of the top 10 importers and let me know which of those are big in the aircraft and medical supply businesses.

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