Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor
Ship Transportation

The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor receives ocean-going ships and lake vessels in addition to barge traffic. The port has recorded more than 150 ship calls in a year during the international shipping season, which goes from the end of March through December. All major shipping lines that serve the Great Lakes call on the Port of Indiana.

Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor:

• Channel depth: 30-foot draft
• Turning basin: 1,600-foot diameter, 28-foot depth
• Ship facilities: 10 ship berths
• Barging facilities: 3 designated barge berths; however barges can be handled on any of port's 15 berths with discharge/loading performed by mobile crawler cranes.

• Container facilities: capable of handling any size container
• Cargo storage facilities:
  • 330,000 square feet of covered general cargo storage
  • 60,000 square feet of covered bulk facilities
  • 55 acres of paved open storage for bulk and general cargo

Steamship Lines

• BBC Chartering, Leer, Germany
• Beluga Shipping, Bremen, Germany
• Jumbo Shipping Co., Geneva, Switzerland
• Fednav Ltd., Montreal, Canada
• Columbia Ship Mgmt., Limassol, Cyprus
• Polsteam, Szczecin, Poland
• Wagenborg Shipping, Delfzijl, Netherlands
• Kahn Shipping Ltd., Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Murmansk Shipping, Murmansk, Russia

Fednav Ltd. is Canada's largest ocean-going shipping line specializing in worldwide transportation of bulk and breakbulk cargoes. Its subsidiary Federal Marine Terminals is an industry leader in marine terminal operations and serves as the general cargo stevedore at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor.

Great Lakes Towing Co. provides onsite tugboat service at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor. During the shipping season, Great Lakes Towing has two 84-foot-long tugs with 20-foot beam stationed at the port. The "Arizona" (1640 H.P.) and the "Kentucky" (1250 H.P.) can provide berthing for ships 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Great Lakes Towing is the largest U.S.-flagged tugboat company engaged in towing on the Great Lakes and the primary provider of tug services in more than 40 U.S. ports.

The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor receives ocean-going ships via the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence for nine months each year, from the end of March through December.

The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System is a deep draft waterway extending 2,340 miles (3,700 km) from the Atlantic Ocean to the head of the Great Lakes, in the heart of North America. The St. Lawrence Seaway portion of the system extends from Montreal to mid-Lake Erie. Ranked as one of the outstanding engineering feats of the 20th century, the St. Lawrence Seaway includes 13 Canadian and two U.S. locks.

The seaway, referred to as "Hwy H2O" flows directly into the North American commercial, industrial and agricultural heartland and is home to some 100 million people, roughly one quarter of the combined Canada/U.S. population. Some 41 ports serve as on/off ramps connecting to a vast network of roadways and rail lines providing complete door-to-door service. Hwy H2O is strategically positioned to play a dynamic role in our world of changing markets, road congestion and clogged coastal ports.

Hwy H2O serves a region that:

• accounts for some 40% of U.S. manufacturing.
• produces two-thirds of Canada's industrial output.
• grows almost half of the soybeans and corn in the U.S.