Business, North Carolina, March 1st, 2004
The 14,000-ton Portsmouth pulls into the Port of Morehead City, the barge's belly brimming with gnarled chunks of castaway steel - the spent casings of a rapid fire industrialized society - hauled from New Jersey by New Canaan, Conn.-based Moran Towing. Into the port flowed 160,457 tons of scrap metal during 2003. This load's journey is far from finished. Moran's tugboats maneuver smaller barges next to the Portsmouth. One clump of shredded steel after another is hoisted into the smaller barges for a trip inland. The Portsmouth can hold enough to fill five of them. Then tugs spend 24 hours n...
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