Port of Cleveland eyes shipping expansion
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By Paula Schleis | Source: Ohio.com/Akron Beacon Journal
The port could begin “container shipping” this year, [Adam Wasserman, president of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority] said, giving area businesses a new option for moving their products to Europe, India, Southeast Asia and other eastern destinations. Containers are 20- to 40-foot long boxes, usually filled with finished products, that can easily be moved from a ship to a truck or stacked on a rail car.
The great majority of Ohio-built products exported overseas must now travel by rail or truck to an East or West Coast port.
… The port still serves the region’s old primary industries, hosting smaller ships that carry steel, iron ore and other bulk material used by area manufacturers.
Last year, for the first time in several years, the port began shipping steel out because the weak U.S. dollar made the product more attractive to overseas customers.
