Port of Cleveland
The Port of Cleveland is a bulk freight shipping port at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River on Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is the third-largest port in the Great Lakes[1] and the fourth-largest Great Lakes port by annual tonnage.[E][2]
Cargo
The Port of Cleveland handles the bulk of raw material shipments for regional manufacturing, as well as exporting some local resources (salt mined from under Lake Erie, materials quarried locally, Ohio farm surpluses, ...).
Primary Cargoes
Overall Annual Tonnage
- Generating $1 billion ($1,000,000,000.00 USD) per year in trade.[1]
- Annual cargo handling averages between 11 million to 16 million tons[2][4][5][6][7][8][9]
- Dry Bulk (loose materials such as limestone and grain): 12 million tons[3]
- Break Bulk (packaged materials): 500,000 tons[3]
- about 1,000 vessel visits,[10]
| Year |
U.S. Rank |
Total Tons |
Domestic Tons |
Foreign Total Tons |
Foreign Imports Tons |
Foreign Exports Tons |
Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 44 | 15,186,819 | 11,467,131 | 3,719,688 | 3,598,998 | 120,690 | [2] |
| 2005 | 47 | 13,640,966 | 10,225,360 | 3,415,606 | 3,137,262 | 278,344 | [4] |
| 2004 | 44 | 15,774,611 | 11,855,282 | 3,919,329 | 3,567,866 | 351,463 | [5] |
| 2003 | 47 | 12,620,794 | 9,508,542 | 3,112,252 | 2,708,093 | 404,159 | [6] |
| 2002 | 48 | 11,411,765 | 9,083,965 | 2,327,800 | 2,270,800 | 57,000 | [7] |
| 2001 | 48 | 11,937,815 | 9,203,587 | 2,734,228 | 2,430,028 | 304,200 | [8] |
| 2000 | 44 | 14,390,802 | 11,914,437 | 2,476,365 | 2,262,104 | 214,261 | [9] |
| Year |
Dry[D] Bulk short Tons[11] |
Break[B] Bulk short Tons[11] |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,028,500 | 949,552 |
| 1999 | 934,306 | 721,369 |
| 1998 | 1,239,551 | 1,182,792 |
| 1997 | 1,521,729 | 1,045,377 |
| 1996 | 1,809,000 | 1,158,056 |
| 1995 | 1,531,985 | 779,314 |
| 1994 | 1,899,989 | 869,669 |
| 1993 | 2,069,184 | 764,743 |
| 1992 | 2,700,842 | 435,286 |
| 1991 | 2,852,675 | 913,670 |
| 1990 | 3,038,535 | 773,922 |
Connections
Rail
Connections to:
(2) Class I railroads:[12][13]
and several regional/short-line railroads:
- Cleveland Terminal and Valley Railway
- Cleveland Works Railway
- Cuyahoga Valley Railway
- Flats Industrial Railroad
- ISG Railways
- Newburgh and South Shore Railroad
- R.J. Corman Railroad/Cleveland Line
- Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
Truck
Port has truck access to four major Interstate highways:[13][14]
I-71, South to: Strongsville, Seville, Columbus and Cincinnati
I-77, South to: Akron, Canton, Richfield, Cambridge, Marietta; Beckley, West Virginia and Columbia, South Carolina
I-80/Ohio Turnpike,
- East to: Streetsboro, Youngstown; and Pennsylvania Turnpike
- West to: North Ridgeville, Lorain, Toledo; and Indiana Toll Road
I-90,
- East to: Euclid, Ohio, Willoughby; Erie, Pennsylvania and Buffalo, New York
- West to: Westlake, Elyria, Toledo; and South Bend, Indiana
as well as local bypasses/connectors:
and Ohio State Routes, such as:
- East to: Euclid and Painesville
- West to: Rocky River and Elyria
Facilities
Eight international cargo berths and docks consist of 110 acres (0.45 km2) of land alongside Lake Erie on the east side of the Cuyahoga River, while the Cleveland Bulk Terminal transshipment facility occupies 44 acres (0.18 km2) just west of the river.[3]
Geography
The Port of Cleveland spans across the Cleveland Harbor on Lake Erie and up the Cuyahoga River to the turning basin.
| Name |
USGS GNIS Feature ID # and Link |
Coordinates |
Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Harbor | 1072326 | 41°31′10″N 81°41′19″W / 41.51944°N 81.68861°W | 571 feet (174 m) |
| Cuyahoga River | 1072205 | 41°30′13″N 81°42′44″W / 41.50361°N 81.71222°W | 571 feet (174 m) |
| Turning Basin | 1047220 | 41°28′36″N 81°40′20″W / 41.47667°N 81.67222°W | 581 feet (177 m) |
Maritime
Docks are maintained at a full Great Lakes seaway depth, which is 27 feet (8.2 m).[13]
Operators
Four terminal operators use port facilities:[13]
- Carmeuse NA
- Essroc (Italcementi)
- Kenmore Construction
- Federal Marine Terminals, Inc.
Cleveland Bulk Terminal
Cleveland Bulk Terminal (CBT), located at 5500 Whiskey Island Drive, on Whiskey Island, is port-owned but operated by Carmeuse NA which handles iron ore transfers. The lakefront facility can accommodate 1,000 feet (300 m) vessels used to discharge and reload rail cars.[15] The automated CBT iron ore loader system on Whiskey Island[16] on the west side of the Cuyahoga River loads materials onto boats from the terminal and transfers materials at a rate of 5,200 tons per hour. Limited handling of materials greatly improves the quality of pellets delivered to the mill.
The ore loader operation benefits three Cleveland companies:[13]
- Cleveland-Cliffs—supplier of iron ore pellets
- Mittal Steel Company—uses the pellets at its mills
- Carmeuse NA—CBT operator and materials transporter
Terminals
These facilities are:[15]
- nine berths and docks in either open dock or two-berth facilities
- capacity for lifting up to 150 net tons
- direct rail access and warehousing ability
- over 6,500 feet (2,000 m) of linear dock space,
- 420,000 square feet (39,000 m2) of warehouse space and
- 12 acres (0.049 km2) of open storage for general cargo operations.
Foreign Trade Zones
Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, Grantee #40, operates-owns several General Purpose Zone Foreign Trade Zones in Cuyahoga County, Ashtabula County and Lorain County.[C][18]
Port of Cleveland
Port of Cleveland complex located on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River includes five general cargo facilities operated by port-approved stevedoring contractors.[15]
Tow Path Valley Business Park
Tow Path Valley Business Park is located on both sides of the east and west bank of the Cuyahoga River bordered by Jennings Road on the south, Upper Campbell Road on the east, I-490/I-77/Dille Road on the north and West 14th Street to the west.[15]
See also
Notes
^ A: Warehouse A has heated storage; and inside rail loading[13]
^ B: Break Bulk (packaged materials): 500,000 tons[3]
^ C: Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority operates-owns several General Purpose Zone Foreign Trade Zones NOT included in the cited Port of Cleveland dock-terminal acreage.[18]
^ D: Dry Bulk (loose materials such as limestone and grain): 12 million tons[3]
^ E: Port of Duluth, Minnesota-Superior, Wisconsin, and Port of Chicago, and Port of Detroit, Michigan are Great Lakes ports ranked higher than Cleveland, Ohio by annual tonnage.[2]
^ F: Notes:
^ G: Dock and Warehouse coordinates manually plotted in Google Earth from map in[11]
References
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
PoC-Historywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d "Tonnage for Selected U.S. Ports in 2006, Sorted by Port Name". Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- ^ a b c d e f g Cite error: The named reference
PoC-Maritimewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Tonnage for Selected U.S. Ports in 2005, Sorted by Port Name". Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- ^ a b "Tonnage for Selected U.S. Ports in 2004, Sorted by Port Name". Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- ^ a b "Tonnage for Selected U.S. Ports in 2003, Sorted by Port Name". Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- ^ a b "Tonnage for Selected U.S. Ports in 2002, Sorted by Port Name". Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- ^ a b "Tonnage for Selected U.S. Ports in 2001, Sorted by Port Name". Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- ^ a b "Tonnage for Selected U.S. Ports in 2000, Sorted by Port Name". Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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PoC-CapacityStudywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Maritime - Rail facilities". Cleveland-Cuyahoga County [Port Authority].
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Maritime - Terminals". Cleveland-Cuyahoga County [Port Authority].
- ^ "Maritime - Highway-Truck access facilities". Cleveland-Cuyahoga County [Port Authority].
- ^ a b c d "FTZ Sites at the Port of Cleveland". Cleveland-Cuyahoga County [Port Authority].
- ^ "Terminal Operators". Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
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- ^ a b "Foreign Trade Zone - Sites". Cleveland-Cuyahoga County [Port Authority].
Other sources
- "Port of Cleveland official site". Cleveland-Cuyahoga County.
- "Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center". Navigation Data Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Department of Defense.
- "USGS GNIS database query". United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- "Tides and Currents, Lake Erie Operational Forecast System - Port of Cleveland". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce.
- "Chapter 13 Transportation - Port of Cleveland" (PDF). Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
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