Cargo
Some commodities come through the port on a regular basis, others are special cargo for a limited time. Such limited time cargo includes subway cars shipped to Albany from Brazil in 2006 for six months, and 30-inch (760 mm) diameter pipes with associated materials from Italy first shipped in May 2007. The pipes were for a 186-mile (299 km) long natural gas pipeline and included 60,000 short tons (53,571 long tons; 54,431 t) of material in about a dozen ships. Commodities shipped to or from Albany on a regular basis include:
- Animal feed;
- Cement;
- Cocoa beans;
- Grain (including corn and wheat);
- Gypsum;
- Ethanol;
- Heavy lift items (including turbines, generators, heat exchangers, and rotors);
- Liquid fertilizer;
- Millscale and scrap metal;
- Molasses;
- Petroleum distillates (including diesel, gasoline, heating oil, and kerosene);
- Salt;
- Steel;
- Sugar;
- Wood pulp and logs.
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