>>1978039Since 2014 the Port of Cleveland has received shipments from Dutch Spliethoff direct from Antwerp. It grew immensely after Covid supply chain bottlenecks at ports like Los Angeles and New York made Cleveland the smartest choice to ship.
Right now the US and Canada's rail and road infrastructure is maxed out and needs time for maintenance. Shipping locally makes sense both economically and environmentally if done right.
It could even be feasible to have Great Lake ships collect containers from the Port of Montreal instead of having to traverse the ocean in a smaller lake freighter, and lower risk of invasive species entry.
The whole reason the Saint Lawrence Seaway was built is so that large lake ships could reach the Montreal port and beyond. It's been underutilized because both the Jones Act and Navigable Waters Act in Canada make international shipping inland extraordinarily restrictive.
