Record pace

Superior's Midwest Energy Resources coal terminal broke a Great Lakes all-time monthly coal-handling record by moving 2,311,665 metric tons in July. The previous record for the most coal by a single dock in one month was held by the Chesapeake & Ohio Dock in Toledo with 2,239,495 metric tons in October 1946. Before that, the record was Sandusky's 1,996,476 metric tons in October 1944.

Midwest Energy wasn't the only busy site in July.

Superior's Burlington Northern Santa Fe taconite facility recorded its third-best month ever in July, handling 1,617,370 metric tons of iron ore.

The total came within a 1,000-foot laker-load of setting a record for the dock. The record month still stands at 1,673,032 metric tons, handled in September 1991, with second place going to the 1,667,952 tons the facility moved in June 1989.

On the Covers

On the front cover: The Port of Duluth-Superior's Second Annual Dukes Day was a big hit with seven-year-old Lindsey McMillan. Lindsey is the daughter of Becky McMillan, Port Authority executive assistant. For more baseball action, see Page 5.

On the back cover: Business was booming at Superior's Midwest Energy Resources coal terminal in July. (See accompanying item — "Record pace" — above)