Port wins Pacesetter award
Strong performances last season by the Port of Duluth-Superior and its Midwest Energy Resources Company (MERC) terminal in Superior, Wis., resulted in their winning a Great Lakes Seaway tonnage award presented October in Duluth. The port shipped just over three million metric tons of bulk cargo through the St. Lawrence Seaway, bettering the previous season by 10 percent. MERC contributed to that total with strong shipments of its clean-burning, low-sulfur Western coal moving through the Seaway locks. The Pacesetter plaque is awarded annually to the U.S. Great Lakes Seaway ports and terminals that increase international tonnage shipped through the Seaway over the previous navigation season.

Pacesetters Adolph Ojard, executive director, Duluth Seaway Port Authority (left, in top left photo), and Fred Shusterich, president, Midwest Energy Resources Company, (left, in lower left photo) each accepted an award from Craig Middlebrook, acting administrator, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.