Bringing an Innovative Product to Market

What do you get when you couple a Liberian tug and an American barge? An innovative, low cost way to move forest and building products between Canada and the United States.

For the past two years, McAllister Towing and Transportation Co., an affiliate of the New York-based towing company McAllister Bros. Inc., has been moving pulp from a mill in Nova Scotia to a Scott Paper Co. plant that makes tissue paper in Chester, Pa. The company uses a Liberian-flag tug and three large US-flag deck barges with houses – essentially large floating warehouses – to move the pulp.

Now Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has signed a long-term contract with McAllister to move a new type of gypsum wallboard being manufactured at a new plant in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia to US ports on the East Coast. The plant, which has been in a start-up mode for several months, is beginning full production and McAllister expects to begin hauling wallboard for Louisiana-Pacific in May.

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