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INFRASTRUCTURES * Canada - City could benefit if shipping project sails in Nova Scotia
Inland distribution points possible
Toledo,OH,USA -The Toledo Blade, by DAVID PATCH -May 4, 2008: -- A proposed container port on the Nova Scotia coast could hold a key to Toledo's future as a potential ocean-container distribution center... Representatives of Melford International Terminal Inc., a Canadian company that has obtained 315 waterfront acres along the Strait of Canso, met last week with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to outline their proposal for a deepwater container port that is intended to capitalize on North America's growing trade with Asia, which is resulting in congestion at existing ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts... While the Melford proposal anticipates that a majority of the freight handled there would make the inland portion of its journey by rail, Terry Johnson, Jr., administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., said the port could become a relay point for smaller container vessels that would transport freight between Nova Scotia and Ohio via the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes... Project planners hope to be in operation by 2010 and have an initial capacity to handle 1.5 million TEUs - an industry measurement of container capacity - annually. The largest container ships now in use have capacities of between 10,000 and 12,000 TEUs...Labels: border infrastructures
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