Green petroleum coke exports from Canada skyrocketed in June, but exports in the first half were down for the year. Canada exported 275,700t of green coke in June, according to recent data from Statistics Canada. This was more than double year-earlier levels and the highest monthly export in Argus records going back to 2013. But the large monthly volume likely had more to do with Canada's complicated logistics than with changes in supply or demand. Canadian coke must travel thousands of miles over rail from inland production sites to the ocean port in British Columbia. Canadian Pacific's rail performance was challenged earlier this year as large grain shipments and rising crude-byrail traffic met a system that had been downsized following prior lower demand.
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