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Ship Ahoy

Published Thursday, November 01, 2001

Given California's insatiable appetite for aggregate and British Columbia's bounty of reserves, it was only a matter of time before it made sense to ship material south. That time has come. As permitted reserves near the booming San Francisco Bay area market dry up and the Canadian dollar's value drops, transporting large volumes of material from B.C. has finally become viable. By some estimates, the Bay area uses about 48 million tons of aggregate a year. Vancouver uses less than half that amount. British Columbia, with its thousands of miles of coast shaped by extinct volcanoes and later ...

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