Port of Cleveland deal may have positive port spinoffs for Halifax
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By TOM PETERS | Source: The Chronicle Herald
The Port of Halifax, as a centre for short sea shipping, may play a future role in the development of Cleveland, Ohio, as a cargo gateway to the U.S. Midwest.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson recently signed an agreement with the Costa Rica government to be a distribution centre for a variety of Costa Rican products and Halifax could eventually be part of the supply chain.
The agreement will see products, mainly agricultural goods, heading toward Cleveland later this year. The cargo will come into the U.S. via a southern port, most likely Miami, and then be either railed or trucked to Ohio.
But as cargo volumes grow, that could all very well change, says Adam Wasserman, president and CEO of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority.
“In the future we would hope volumes would build and the opportunity would be there to take most of the product via water all the way in (to Cleveland), and ports like Halifax, we hope, would play a significant role,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
… Another piece of the logistics chain is a short sea service, which might happen within the next few months. Great Lakes Feeder Lines of Burlington, Ont., has taken ownership of a small container vessel it plans to use to start a short sea service.
