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INSIGHTS with Cleveland Europe Express, and that’s where we’ve had starting from nothing. In the Great Lakes, where we haven’t our priority. Equipment-wise, we have two new Liebherr had scheduled liner container service for decades, we con- mobile harbor cranes, and two reach stackers for container sider that an accomplishment. We’ve seen that we can beat handling. We built a new building next to where we’re han- the door-to-door transit time through an east coast port by dling the containers for trans-loading, potentially, from do- up to about 10 days. There are things that for us to com- mestic trailers to containers or vice versa, getting anything pete – for us to really grow and make this a 20,000 TEU else out of the weather that needs to be out of the weather. per year service – we have to solve. That’s our goal; we’re

We want to be the best equipped port on the Great Lakes. not trying to be half a million TEU port. We’ve got trains,

And we are. We’ve also worked very hard with CBP. CBP a lot of them stack trains, going by us between New York had never handled containers in the Great Lakes, and so for and Chicago, and it’s a constant reminder as I look out my them, it was a big deal. They didn’t have the equipment and window that we want to make some of that stop here. That they had to staff up. To us, that’s a competitive advantage isn’t happening yet. It’s all truck at this point. Is there some – we have something here that the other Great Lakes ports potential for rail intermodal at some point? Yes. We’ve tried don’t necessarily have. And you put all that together, and to get the railroads to take more interest, but that’s a long- we think we’re far and away the leading international hub term goal. We have quite a bit of rail capacity on the port here on the system. We’re up to probably about 4,000 TEU – we are served directly by NS and CSX, and then we have a year, which I know sounds ridiculously small, but that’s a little switcher on the port, so we’ve got a nice setup. We

A containership alongside at the Port of Cleveland.

Credit: Port of Cleveland

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