Significance of the Saint Lawrence Seaway to the Great Lakes Commerce and IndustryUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1957 - 226 pages |
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1955 Water Freight Atlantic Canada Atlantic Canada Imports barge bituminous coal Boyne City BREAKWATER Buffalo River bulk cargo bulk commodities bushel Cal-Sag Channel Calumet Harbor Canadian capacity cent Cleveland coal and lignite completed Seaway connecting channels construction Corps of Engineers costs dollars dredging Duluth-Superior elevators estimated facilities Ferrysburg foreign grain traffic handling high grade Ibid Illinois Waterway Imports Overseas Exports industrial development inland waterways Labrador Lake Calumet Lake Erie Lake Michigan laker Lakes Canada Lakes ports Lakes Waterborne Commerce Lakewise Receipts U.S. Lakewise Shipments U.S. Lakewise Traffic U.S. Lawrence Seaway lignite liners locks Maritime Midwest miles million Milwaukee Montreal ocean operating outer harbor overseas Exports overseas petroleum pier Pittsburgh plans port cities Port of Detroit prediction PROJECT DEPTH rail rorts route seaboard ports Seaway opens Seaway's ships taconite terminal Toledo tonnage Total trade traffic flow Traffic in Tons vessels Water Freight Traffic waterfront Welland Canal writer York
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Page 86 - ... (3) That the rates on vessels in ballast without passengers or cargo may be less than the rates for vessels with passengers or cargo. (4) That the rates prescribed shall be calculated to cover, as nearly as practicable, all costs of operating and maintaining the works under the administration of the Corporation, including depreciation, payment of interest on the obligations of the Corporation, and payments in lieu of taxes.
Page 102 - FF ESTES, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE COAL EXPORTERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES, INC.
Page 40 - In the name of private enterprise, it would protect the immediate advantage of a handful of its members, to the vast ultimate damage of the whole community of free enterprisers in an expanding port situation .... We suggest then that the Board abandon its maneuver of fronting for the interests of a few at the expense of the many.... We suggest that it call off its spokesman ( 'eager and uninformed...
Page 63 - any estimate of future traffic involves an evaluation of such unknowns as the future political, economic, and military state of the world, the future international trade policies of the nations of the world and especially of the United States and Canada, the level of future tariffs and the general level of the respective national economies."^ This paper will make no estimates of its own concerning total tonnages.
Page 4 - ... followed the Civil War stimulated vocal demands for a true deep-draft seaway. Many Congressional delegates from western grain regions stated that their only salvation would be deepwater access over the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River to foreign markets. Their assertion rested on various factors: It rested in part on the persistent belief that water transport was cheaper than rail and that rates by water acted as a natural regulator of railway freight charges. It resulted also from the...
Page 99 - Welland Canal around Niagara Falls in 1832. The Canadian government later took possession and, in a number of projects, finally deepened the channel to 10 feet in 1853.9 Other construction programs hacked away at 6 G. Wallace Chessman, "Historical Background of the St. Lawrence Seaway through the First World War" (Paper delivered before joint meeting of the Lexington Group and the American Historical Association, December 28, 1954), pp.
Page 79 - ... rates through Chicago and Milwaukee on shipments originating or terminating. at inland points west of Lake Michigan. The first such rate to be established was on packing house exports from Madison, Wisconsin, loaded aboard ship at Milwaukee.
Page 26 - If appropriations continue to be forthcoming at a rate commensurate with the ability of the engineers to proceed with plans, negotiations, and actual building, the first stage of the project, connecting Lake Calumet with the Illinois Lakes -to- Gulf Waterway by a modern barge route, should be completed by 1963.
Page 82 - Up in the lakes, shippers and other Teorle calling at the waterfront in the course of their business day, greet the skippers as old friends. Lavish parties are held aboard ship at times and there is always a friendly chat awaiting the occasional land lubber when a foreign ship calls.
Page 2 - The day of the discovery was August 10, 1535 , which to Cartier, who was a devout as well as a thorough and capable explorer, was the 'festival of Saint Lawrence*.