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Join the Northeast Ohio Watershed Council for a special meeting with Adam Wasserman, President and CEO of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority, who will discuss the Port Authority's plans for relocation and expansion.

Please RSVP to Kristy Meyer at 614-487-7506 or at Kristy@TheOEC.org.

"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.

The docks and storage facilities of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority occupy a large and strategically located portion of the lakefront north of downtown. Thus, lakefront planning always ends up confronting the question: What do we do with the port?

This question must balance the need to provide greater public access to the lake with the need to maintain a viable maritime port to serve local industries. In addition, a working waterfront is part of the character and soul of the city.

Currently, the city's lakefront plan calls for port facilities to move from their present location on the east side of the Cuyahoga River (around Browns Stadium) to a new site on the west side of the river. This new location would be created by filling in the lake with dredge material north of the breakwall protecting Whiskey Island. By moving the port westward, land on the east side close to downtown and the Warehouse District would be opened up for development. A new waterfront neighborhood with boardwalks and greenspace could take the place of port warehouses. 

This plan raises lots of questions: