Midwest Energy Resources Company (Superior, Wisconsin)
USA /
Minnesota /
Duluth /
Superior, Wisconsin
World
/ USA
/ Minnesota
/ Duluth
World / United States / Wisconsin
dock (maritime), coal storage/terminal
Site is man-made fill and was once divided by multiple north-south oriented shipping slips into numerous long, narrow piers. These piers were once home to a bustling collection of receiving docks where lake freighters would unload coal from the mines of Appalachia destined for industrial facilities, railway bunkers, and home furnaces all over the North-Central U.S. As fuel technology changed the inbound eastern coal trade died out and these once busy docks fell into disuse by the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In the early 1970s most of the aforementioned slips were filled in to prepare the site for its current occupant - a state-of-the-art coal export terminal which was built in a whirlwind 14 months and first loaded coal onto a vessel during the summer of 1976. This facility transfers low sulfur sub-bituminous coal from rail onto freighters. Business here grew strongly and steadily throughout the 1980s and 1990s as cleaner-burning western coal replaced higher-sulfer eastern coal in power plants throughout the region. The long climb in business here peaked in 2006 and the terminal's annual tonnage has been steady at just under record levels since.
This facility is the largest single-point coal terminal in North America; 'single-point' meaning it unloads one train at a time and loads one ship at a time. It is the busiest shipping terminal of any kind on the U.S. or Canadian Great Lakes. If it were to be considered its own stand-alone port it would rank as the third or fourth busiest port on the Great Lakes and the 35th - 40th busiest port in the United States.
Most of the coal handled here comes from Wyoming with occasional receipts from mines in Montana, Colorado, and Utah as well. The coal can either be transferred directly from train to ship, or more commonly is stored in the terminal's massive stockpile area before it's loaded onto a vessel. U.S. and Canadian bulk cargo ships bring the coal to customers as close by as Graymont, Ltd.'s lime plant 3 miles away on the Superior, WI waterfront and as far away as the power plant at Sydney, NS. The facilities prime customer is a power plant at St. Clair, MI.
www.midwestenergy.com/
In the early 1970s most of the aforementioned slips were filled in to prepare the site for its current occupant - a state-of-the-art coal export terminal which was built in a whirlwind 14 months and first loaded coal onto a vessel during the summer of 1976. This facility transfers low sulfur sub-bituminous coal from rail onto freighters. Business here grew strongly and steadily throughout the 1980s and 1990s as cleaner-burning western coal replaced higher-sulfer eastern coal in power plants throughout the region. The long climb in business here peaked in 2006 and the terminal's annual tonnage has been steady at just under record levels since.
This facility is the largest single-point coal terminal in North America; 'single-point' meaning it unloads one train at a time and loads one ship at a time. It is the busiest shipping terminal of any kind on the U.S. or Canadian Great Lakes. If it were to be considered its own stand-alone port it would rank as the third or fourth busiest port on the Great Lakes and the 35th - 40th busiest port in the United States.
Most of the coal handled here comes from Wyoming with occasional receipts from mines in Montana, Colorado, and Utah as well. The coal can either be transferred directly from train to ship, or more commonly is stored in the terminal's massive stockpile area before it's loaded onto a vessel. U.S. and Canadian bulk cargo ships bring the coal to customers as close by as Graymont, Ltd.'s lime plant 3 miles away on the Superior, WI waterfront and as far away as the power plant at Sydney, NS. The facilities prime customer is a power plant at St. Clair, MI.
www.midwestenergy.com/
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 46°44'11"N 92°6'56"W
- C. Reiss Company's "Inland" Dock 3.5 km
- CN Proctor Yard 11 km
- Hidden Cove Park 1568 km
- Total Docks 1871 km
- Conocophillips Terminal 2001 km
- Texas Dock and Rail 2156 km
- Valero Docks 2157 km
- Benicia refinery tanker dock 2631 km
- Pier 70 Historic Shipyard 2666 km
- Juneau Dock 3076 km
- North End 1.1 km
- St Louis Bay 2.4 km
- Billings Park 3.2 km
- Central Park 4.1 km
- West Duluth 4.4 km
- Superior Municipal Forest 6.1 km
- Clough Island 6.6 km
- South End 7.3 km
- Riverside Area 8.2 km
- Gary 11 km
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