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Test Container Ship Sails into Duluth:

September 25 2006 at 12:36 PM		   (Login MagillaSchaus)
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Test container sails into port
Tb News Source
Web Posted: 9/19/2006 5:49:09 PM

The Highway H2O travelling container has made its way to Thunder Bay.

The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation is sponsoring the 20-foot 'Travis the Travelling Container' which was shipped from Denmark to Duluth.

That's a total of 8,000 kilometers, a trip that took about 13 days. And now, the travelling container is on the second part of its journey, to visit more ports on the Great Lakes.

The corporation is trying to attract attention to the benefits of moving containers via ships, instead of using road or rail.

Corporation spokesperson Aldert Van Nieuwkoop says moving the container via the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes was nine days quicker than if it travelled by rail or road. He says this method of travel also saves money and can create a growth market for the Seaway and the ports on the Great Lakes.

‘''We believe that the gateway into North America, where we have some hundred million people who live in this area around the Great Lakes, is a big consumer market and a lot of these containers end up in this area. The St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes can form a viable alternative to bring containers in with smaller vessels.’''

Nieuwkoop says vessels these days carry around 13,000 containers on the ocean-going vessels which would be broken down into smaller loads for movement on the Great Lakes but still be efficient.

Travis the Travelling Container will continue it's trip to other ports, possibly including Windsor, Hamilton and Toronto.





    
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