Whirligig
There are ships that actually carry raw materials vs. barges. I do not know a great deal about it, but I woudl think tugs pulling barges would be very unsafe even along the safer shipping channels.
Since Komex already had offices set up in the US and Mittal definitely does, I think it is more plausable that they have either contracts with shipping companies to bring finished product to the US, those ships have to go back and could possibly carry back raw materials.
Kind of lke Walmart does domestically and internationally with China. Alot of this is just guess until we know, so I could be totally off base.
Regards,
Fizzlegig
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