Tulsa Port of Catoosa’s volumes skyrocket in October

The Oklahoman inland river port saw water-borne cargo throughput rise 82 percent month-over-month in October to 170,751 tons.    The Tulsa Port of Catoosa, an inland river port in Northeast Oklahoma, handled 170,751 tons of inbound and outbound water-borne cargo in October, an 82 percent month-over-month increase.
   The port attributed the October tonnage gains to increased outbound shipments of agricultural products.
   In addition to strong fertilizer exports in October, good weather in the late spring and early summer resulted in bountiful harvests of soybeans.
   The majority of soybeans that move through the port are destined for export, primarily to Asia.
   “Exports of beans increase from the USA from September through February, while South American growers benefit the most from March through August,” Tulsa Port of Catoosa Gavilon Grain terminal manager Jay Boucher said in a statement.
   For the month of October, total shipping for the entire McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, which is a 445-mile navigation channel that originates at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa and runs southeast through Oklahoma and Arkansas to the Mississippi River, totaled 1.05 million tons, 366,459 tons of which were shipped through Oklahoma.
   The Tulsa Port of Catoosa handled 16 percent of cargo shipped on the navigation system in October and 47 percent of the cargo that moved through Oklahoma during the month.