This is soon to be MOPNs problem..."We're flat out; we're backlogged," said Lenny Johnson, president of Chemtex in Cumberland, R.I., a distributor of oil spill cleanup supplies since 1998. "Every manufacturer in the country is backlogged a month. My phone rings every five minutes."
John McCusker / The Times-PicayuneA boat lays out oil containment booms east of Southwest Pass in lower Plaquemines Parish on Wednesday. Johnson just got home from spending a week along the Gulf Coast, including Venice and Mobile, and has shipped 20 tractor-trailer loads of various oil spill cleanup products to the region, including 30,000 feet of containment boom.
News 
Market Data 
Discover 
