"Maritime should be central to what we do," Wasserman told the board, which seemed pleased with the draft plan. Cleveland's port looks to grow, boost projects 25-year goal: 'premier' status Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Tom Breckenridge Plain Dealer Reporter

The public can comment on the draft plan.

Bone on up Great Lakes isues with this glossy overview and here's the latest (unless you can trump this) on Modern Tonnage.

I found this at a Canadian site:

APPLICATION by Great Lakes Feeder Lines Inc. pursuant to the Coasting Trade Act, S.C., 1992, c. 31, for a licence to use the "CFL PROSPECT", a container ship registered in the Netherlands, to operate a dedicated container feeder service between Halifax, Nova Scotia, Montréal, Quebec and Hamilton, Ontario commencing on or about August 1, 2007 and ending on or about July 31, 2008.

McKeil Marine argues that the application is intended to avoid paying duty on a foreign vessel and to take advantage of all of the associated cost savings based solely on economic factors that should not be taken into consideration. According to McKeil Marine, Canadian operators have found that the current economic burden of Canadian regulations and requirements makes domestic container movements cost prohibitive; if this were not the case, Canadian operators would have been moving containers domestically some time ago.

Where oh where would a new container port be located in our green city on a blue lake 25 years from now? I mused about it here a few months ago... shrinking city shrinking port? See you on the 29th -- should be interesting.