A system of canals, locks and channels opened in 1959 that lets ocean-going ships travel from the Atlantic Ocean into the Great Lakes as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior. It is jointly operated by the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation in Canada and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation in the United States, marketed together as Highway H2O.
Facts
Completion Year SignificanceCarries 40 to 50 million tonnes of cargo a year, roughly half of it bound for international ports in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, opening the interior of North America to deep-draft ocean shipping. 1 Connections
Operated By
Source Wikipedia: Saint Lawrence Seaway
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WikipediaHistory
On April 25, 1959, large, deep-draft ocean vessels began streaming to the heart of the North American continent through the seaway.
Expansion proposal
The seaway locks permit passage of a ship 740 feet (230 m) long by 78 feet (24 m) wide (the Seawaymax limit).
Introduction, function
permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota.
Operated By: Saint Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, Lead paragraph
A number of the locks are managed by the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation in Canada
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In Group: Ship Canals, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Ship Canals, Lead sentence
is a system of rivers, locks, canals, and channels in Eastern Canada and the Northern United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, at the western end of Lake Superior.
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