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Posted 31 August 2017 - 07:08 PM

Reuters 8/30/17:
 

Harvey may cause long-term disruption on Houston's rail tracks

 

 

(Reuters) - Major U.S. railroads have warned that it could be a long time before normal operations resume in the Houston area where Tropical Storm Harvey has caused catastrophic flooding.

 

Closure of rail lines in the grain transport hub and nexus for cross-border traffic with Mexico presents a costly headache for customers ranging from automakers to farmers who use the lines to send ethanol, cereals and auto parts to and from Mexico or to be loaded onto ships.

 

Union Pacific Corp and Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s BNSF Railway, the two leading U.S. railroads, and regional railroad Kansas City Southern have suspended operations in the area affected by the storm.

 

“We don’t have a historical precedent with this one,” said Thomas Williamson, owner of Florida-based rail broker Transportation Consultants Co. “I expect service to be disrupted anywhere from two to six weeks.”

 

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Posted 06 September 2017 - 08:37 PM

Reuters 9/5/17:
 

Delays to U.S. wheat exports set to persist in Harvey-hit Texas

 

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Disruptions and delays to U.S. wheat exports from Texas as a result of Hurricane Harvey will persist for days more, trade experts said on Tuesday, after shipments were wiped out last week by flooded railroad tracks and closed ports.

 

The storm came ashore on Aug. 25 and became the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than half a century, closing export terminals that handle around a quarter of U.S. wheat shipments.

 

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Posted 07 September 2017 - 09:35 PM

CNBC 9/6/17:
 

Harvey has 'paralyzed' a critical part of US manufacturing supply chain

  • Petrochemical facilities and rail companies are still restoring service to the Gulf Coast.
  • The plants produce the most commonly used plastics and chemicals that U.S. manufacturers use to make consumer and industrial goods.
  • Inventories at factories could start running dry as soon as next week, analysts say.

 

Many of the plastics and specialty chemicals that factories across the United States depend on are stuck on the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, threatening to create supply shortages and raise prices for U.S. manufacturers.

 

The U.S. Gulf Coast is home to about 90 percent of the nation's capacity to turn out base plastics, the building blocks for a wide range of consumer and industrial goods. Petrochemical plants that make the products and the rail companies that ship them are still restoring service after Harvey brought devastating flooding to southeast Texas.

 

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