Hallett 5 (Duluth, Minnesota)

 dock (maritime), clay, junkyard / scrapyard, limestone quarry

Pier is man-made, originally a coal receiving dock. Purchased in the early 1960s by Hallett, then a local aggregates-quarrying company. Since then Hallett has grown and expanded into a major materials handling and transportation company, with two current shipping docks in the Twin Ports and another somewhat landlocked facility upstream.

Hallett 5 handles a wide variety of inbound and outbound commodities. Most of them are dry bulk goods including limestone, bentonite clay, chrome ore, petroleum coke, urea, raw taconite rock, and taconite fines/sinter feed. Hallett also handles some general cargo as well, including scrap metal and the occasional project cargo.

The facility has a railcar dumping station and a conveyor-equipped closed flat bulk storage building, along with a number of portable conveyor belts and shiploaders and quite the fleet of bulldozers and front-end loaders. It's a very dynamic and flexible facility and has one of the most diverse cargo portfolios on the Great Lakes.

Company has a website at www.hallettdock.com/