Inland Insider

摘要

Do you ever wonder what's shipped back to China and Europe in all those otherwise empty marine containers that had been full of imports? Statistics from major deepwater ports like the Port of New York and New Jersey show that waste and scrap make up the largest volume of exports. The U.S. is a major world exporter of domestic waste and scrap. In addition, scrap metals are particularly important domestically to supply the new generation of steel manufacturing that relies on smelting rather than big blast furnaces. New domestic mini-steel mills have sprung up on the inland waterways to gain access to barge movements of scrap.