- LOCATION
- Western
tip of Lake Superior's 82,097 square kilometers of
earth's
 freshest
water
- 3,769
kilometers or less than a week's sailing time
from the Atlantic Ocean
- 183 meters above
sea level
- WATERFRONT
- 79 kilometers
long, with 27 kilometers of dredged channels
- 49 square
kilometers of land and water in a naturally
protected harbor
- TONNAGE
- 40 million
metric tons annually
- VESSEL
CALLS
- 1,100
vessels annually
- Maximum
size permitted through
- Seaway
locks:
- Length:
222.5 meters
- Beam:
23.7 meters
- Draft:
8 meters
- Soo
locks:
- Length:
335.3 meters
- Beam:
32 meters
- Draft:
8.4 meters
- CARGO
TERMINALS
- 15 major
facilities including:
- 6
multi-purpose bulk terminals
- 1
general cargo distribution center
- 2
ore docks
- 1
coal dock
- 6
grain elevators with 55 million bushels of
licensed wheat silo capacity
- PRINCIPAL
CARGOES
- Ore (40%),
Coal (40%), Grain (10%)
- RANKING
BY PRINCIPAL CARGO LOADINGS
- Ore -
No. 1 nationally
- Coal
- No. 5 nationally
- Grain
- No. 1 U.S. Great Lakes
- PORT
RANKING
No. 1 Great Lakes port in total cargo volume
No. 16 nationally in total cargo volume (2002)
- ECONOMIC
IMPACT & JOBS
$200 million economic impact, with 2,000 jobs dependent upon the port
$2 billion worth of cargo transshipped via Duluth-Superior docks. (2001)
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