The port of Chicago and the St. Lawrence seaway /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
The University of Chicago Press,
1957.
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| Series: | Research paper (University of Chicago. Department of Geography) ;
no. 49. |
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Table of Contents:
- II. The St. Lawrence Seaway route : past, present and future
- history of the Seaway project
- physical features of the Seaway
- cost of the Seaway
- Great Lakes connecting channels
- III. Great Lakes-overseas trade and shipping services
- history of Great Lakes-overseas shipping
- present Great Lakes-overseas vessels
- present schedule in Great Lakes-overseas trade
- advantages of the direct Great Lakes-overseas route
- IV. Prospects for Great Lakes-overseas shipping
- grain movements
- international internal trade
- V. Advantages of the port of Chicago
- diversity of traffic
- prospects for economic growth in the Chicago hinterland
- VII. Traffic of the port of Chicago
- lakewise traffic
- XI. Development of other harbors in metropolitan Chicago
- Chicago River
- Waukegan harbor
- Burns harbor, Indiana
- Michigan City harbor, Indiana
- Illiana harbor
- XII. Prospects and plans of Great Lakes ports
- Canadian Great Lakes ports
- Buffalo
- Cleveland
- Toledo
- Detroit
- Milwaukee.