St. Lawrence Seaway Faces Slow Climb Back

The St. Lawrence Seaway’s 50th anniversary celebrations this year were overshadowed by one of the worst years for traffic in the waterway’s history, and Richard Corfe sees only slow recovery next year and beyond.

By the close of the shipping season on Dec. 24, traffic through the Seaway will be about 30 million metric tons, 25 percent less than than 2008’s 40 million tons, the president of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. said in an interview with The Journal of Commerce.