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Transportation - Port

Port

The Port of Toledo is one of the most diverse and productive ports on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway system. Our mile-long docking facility is serviced by both Big Lucas and Little Lucas – two of the largest cranes on any port in America.
The seaport complex includes specialized docking areas for coal and ore as well as docking berths for tug boats.

Heavy-lift gantry cranes are run by seasoned professionals to provide the lift capacity to meet your needs.

And the Port of Toledo’s strategic combination of lift capacity, location and warehouse and open storage capacity is designed to more effectively meet all of your international shipping needs.

Grain
Corn, soybeans and wheat are the major grains shipped from The Andersons, ADM/Countrymark Cooperative Inc., and Cargill Incorporated (operated by The Andersons) terminals. Our riverfront grain terminals have easy access to ship, rail, and road. The port’s three terminals have a 22 million bushel storage capacity. This includes:

The Andersons with seven million bushels
ADM with nine million bushels
Andersons-E with six million bushels

Bulk
Toledo is one of the largest capacity coal and iron ports in the world. Modern facilities are located at the confluence of the Maumee River and Lake Erie.

Taconite is shipped to Toledo’s TORCO dock from the St. Lawrence River by self-unloading vessels and can accommodate 1,000 feet long lake vessels.

Coal shipping is conducted through the CSX Transportation Docks

General Cargo
Toledo is a major intermodal transportation hub serving the U.S. Midwest with efficient, effective connections to marine, rail, pipeline, truck and airborne transportation. Our 150-acre overseas cargo center is located along nearly one mile of straight line wharf at the mouth of the Maumee River on Lake Erie. Our cargo center includes companies such as, Toledo World Industries, Co. - as the overseas cargo operators and their link, Kuhlman Corporation - aggregate handling, Toledo Shiprepair Yard, Cemex and Lafarge Cement, Westway Terminal Company - liquid storage, MidWest Terminals - stone unloading and 19 cargo handling terminals at the Port of Toledo including two shipyards.

Ample warehouse and open storage space is readily available with gantry cranes serving the entire wharf.

The Port of Toledo is a designated Foreign Trade Zone area and can be customized to meet your unique needs and objectives.

Port Of Toledo Map

Other Lake Erie (Ohio) Ports

Name of Port	County	Total amount of cargo handled in 2001 (tons)
Marblehead Port	Ottawa County	3.03 million in limestone
Sandusky Port	Erie County	4.5 million in coal, .117 million in crude materials & .011 million in iron & steel
Huron Port	Erie County	.041 million in grain, .528 million in limestone & .691 million in ore

Foregin Trade Zones

The Toledo Lucas County Port Authority oversees granting extensions and sub-zones of the foreign trade zone in the region. This allows goods to be stored, manipulated, manufactured, reclassified and mixed with foreign and domestic products without duties until the products enter the domestic market. The foreign trade zone in Northwest Ohio also provides state and local tax advantages.

Recognizing the value of a foreign-trade zone, Toledo is “reconfiguring and expanding” its zone to ensure its future marketability.

Toledo-Lucas County Port, a diversified world cargo hub, at the mouth of the Maumee River, the largest river entering the Great Lakes. The Port of Toledo is the second largest deep-water port on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway System. Also deep in history, Toledo’s FTZ was the first created on the Great

Lakes.Seaport 150 acres
Toledo World Industries active
Arbor Foods active

Cedar Point Development Park recent addition of 500+ contiguous acres , dubbed the Cedar Point Development Park, in Oregon, Ohio. Three rail lines serve Cedar Point, just two miles from the port.

Oregon 462 acres
Cedar Point Industrial Park activating (Spartan)

Toledo Express Business Park.

Airport 337 acres
BAX Global active

First Choice Packaging

Fremont 10 acres
First Choice Packaging active

Two Zones Pending
(Greenbelt Development Park & Ohio Northern Global Distribution & Business Center )

Foreign Trade Zone (Grantee)
Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
One Maritime Plaza
Toledo, Ohio 43604-1866

Phone: (419) 243-8251

Fax: (419) 243-1835
Contact: Kelly Y. River

Informative Links

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System	Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Assoc

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