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- elevation
  
571 ft (174 m)

- urban
  
144 sq mi (373 km)

- Regionalized
  
1968

Zip code
  
44114

Municipality
  
Cleveland

- elevation
  
174 ft (53 m)

- metro
  
144 sq mi (373 km)

Area
  
373 km²

Phone
  
+1 216-241-8004

Port of Cleveland

- location
  
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States

Address
  
1100 W 9th St #300, Cleveland, OH 44113, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 8:30AM–5PMFriday8:30AM–5PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday8:30AM–5PMTuesday8:30AM–5PMWednesday8:30AM–5PMThursday8:30AM–5PMSuggest an edit

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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 and the fourth-largest Great Lakes port by annual tonnage.

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Port of cleveland


CargoEdit

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 CargoesEdit

  • Inbound: Steel, heavy machinery, liquid/dry bulk
  • Outbound: machinery and steel

    • Overall Annual TonnageEdit

  • Generating $1 billion ($1,000,000,000.00 USD) per year in trade.
  • Annual cargo handling averages between 11 million to 16 million tons
  • Dry Bulk (loose materials such as limestone and grain): 12 million tons
  • Break Bulk (packaged materials): 500,000 tons
  • about 1,000 vessel visits,

    • RailEdit

    Connections to:
    (2) Class I railroads:

  • CSX Transportation
  • Norfolk Southern Railway

    • 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

    • TruckEdit

    Port has truck access to four major Interstate highways:

  • 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:

  • I-271, I-480, and I-490;

    • and Ohio State Routes, such as:

  • Ohio State Route 2
  • East to: Euclid and Painesville
  • West to: Rocky River and Elyria

    • FacilitiesEdit

    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.

    GeographyEdit

    The Port of Cleveland spans across the Cleveland Harbor on Lake Erie and up the Cuyahoga River to the turning basin.

    MaritimeEdit

    Docks are maintained at a full Great Lakes seaway depth, which is 27 feet (8.2 m).

    OperatorsEdit

    Four terminal operators use port facilities:

  • Carmeuse NA
  • Essroc (Italcementi)
  • Kenmore Construction
  • Federal Marine Terminals, Inc.

    • Cleveland Bulk TerminalEdit

    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. The automated CBT iron ore loader system on Whiskey Island 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:

  • Cleveland-Cliffs—supplier of iron ore pellets
  • Mittal Steel Company—uses the pellets at its mills
  • Carmeuse NA—CBT operator and materials transporter

    • TerminalsEdit

    These facilities are:

  • 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 ZonesEdit

    Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, Grantee #40, operates-owns several General Purpose Zone Foreign Trade Zones in Cuyahoga County, Ashtabula County and Lorain County.

    Port of ClevelandEdit

    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.

    Tow Path Valley Business ParkEdit

    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.

    References

    Port of Cleveland Wikipedia
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