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Recognition: Seaway Pacesetter Awards

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Seaway Pacesetter Award Winners for 2014 Navigation Season

The U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) on March 24 announced that eight U.S. ports in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System are receiving the Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award for registering increases in international cargo tonnage shipped through their ports during the 2014 navigation season compared to the previous year.

They include the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, Duluth Seaway Port Authority, Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority, Illinois International Port District of Chicago, Port of Indiana–Burns Harbor, Port of Milwaukee, Port of Oswego Authority, and the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.

Commodities accounting for almost all of the increases in international cargo handled by the Pacesetter port winners included asphalt, petroleum products, aluminum, steel, and grain.  High value project cargo such as locomotive cars, electrical transformers and fermentation tanks were also handled during the 2014 navigation season.
 
"The Great Lakes Seaway System realized a 7.6 percent tonnage increase from 2013 to 2014, a strong performance that reflects the increasing strength of the overall economy," said SLSDC Administrator Betty Sutton. "Marine transportation remains a catalyst for jobs and productivity for the local economies where these ports are situated and throughout the Great Lakes region."
 

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