Local media is reporting a cement shortage in Michigan, USA, causing delays on construction projects. Michigan Concrete Association has blamed the harsh winter of 2013/2014 for compressing the construction season, as well as a delay in shipping cement while the Great Lakes were frozen over, causing transportation bottlenecks.
The Michigan Department of Transportation’s projects, including a massive highway project, are said to take precedence over other customers’, leading some concrete customers to be told they are on a waiting list. The supply situation could ease in the coming weeks as the road construction season wraps up, although it is difficult to forecast what the coming winter will bring.
News from North America’s construction sector, including limestone shipments on the Great Lakes, housing starts in Canada and the latest honours and publications from the ACI.
The Port of Long Beach in California has released a draft environmental impact report regarding proposed modifications to the Mitsubishi Cement import terminal at the site.
Shipments of limestone and cement by US-flag lakers fell y/y in May 2014; the CAC releases industry statistics for 2012; the sector responds to the planned divestment of Holcim assets in Canada.