November 16, 2023
DULUTH, Minn. — Boosted by an 18-month high for grain shipments, total maritime tonnage through the Port of Duluth-Superior climbed 3.9% ahead of last season’s pace through Oct. 31, 2023. More than 141,000 short tons of grain transited the port in October, as fall harvest season ramped up throughout the Upper Midwest. Almost 92,000 ST… Read more »
October 23, 2023
DULUTH, Minn. — At 12:01 a.m. yesterday, UNIFOR, the unionized workers of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, went on strike, resulting in the shutdown of Canadian portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway is a linear system of canals and locks through Ontario, New York and Quebec. Closure of any portion effectively results… Read more »
September 26, 2023
DULUTH, Minn. — A newly constructed 56,000-square-foot warehouse opened at the Clure Public Marine Terminal this month, featuring five truck bays and an enclosed railcar dock. The new structure expands an existing 88,000-square-foot East Warehouse Annex, which opened in 2002, and brings total warehousing capacity for Duluth Cargo Connect to over 500,000 square feet. The… Read more »
June 30, 2023
DULUTH, Minn. — The Duluth Seaway Port Authority and its terminal operations on Rice’s Point ranked among the nation’s top performers in the recently released Green Marine 2022 environmental performance report, posting a 4.0 score on Green Marine’s five-point scale, an improvement from 3.8 in 2021. The overall average for port authority participants in 2022… Read more »
March 31, 2023
Arriving March 28 at 3:30 p.m. under Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge, the Federal Dart from Fednav Limited became the earliest-arriving oceangoing vessel on record in the Port of Duluth-Superior. The previous record belonged to another Fednav vessel, Federal Hunter, which arrived March 30, 2013. Carrying approximately 23,000 short tons of Turkish cement, Federal Dart made the trans-Atlantic… Read more »
March 13, 2023
DULUTH, Minn. — During its annual meeting held March 2, the Duluth Seaway Port Authority Board of Commissioners elected officers for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2023. The board elected Yvonne Solon to serve as president, succeeding Tony Sertich, who remains a board member along with Nancy Norr. This is Solon’s second appointment as… Read more »
January 27, 2023
DULUTH, Minn. — Despite its biggest January throughput since 2010 (1.34 million short tons), total maritime tonnage for the Port of Duluth-Superior finished the 2022 navigation season down 7.6 percent compared to 2021 and down 7 percent against the five-season average. Some 30.4 million short tons of cargo transited the port this season, including nearly… Read more »
December 1, 2022
DULUTH, Minn. — The Duluth City Council recently appointed Nancy Aronson Norr to the Duluth Seaway Port Authority Board of Commissioners. Norr succeeds Commissioner Ray Klosowski, who concluded an 18-year stint on the Port Authority Board of Commissioners in October. Norr’s appointment is a six-year term set to expire Oct. 31, 2028. Norr recently completed… Read more »
June 29, 2022
DULUTH, Minn. — The Duluth Seaway Port Authority and its terminal operations on Rice’s Point ranked among the nation’s top performers in the recently released Green Marine 2021 environmental performance report, posting a 3.8 score on Green Marine’s five-point scale. The overall average for port authority participants was 2.97. The annual report rates port authority… Read more »
June 13, 2022
DULUTH, Minn. — The Hansen-Mueller Company recently finalized acquisition of General Mills Elevator A in Duluth, Minnesota, completing a deal that will bring the grain-handling facility back into active service. Owned previously by General Mills and inactive since 2015, Elevator A becomes the second Hansen-Mueller-owned grain complex in the Twin Ports, joining the Daisy Elevator… Read more »
