Study: Lakes shipping brings 227,000 jobs, billions in revenue
October 18, 2011 at 5:11 am in Duluth News Tribune
In Minnesota, marine cargo traffic was responsible for 6,271 jobs, $440 million in personal income, $1.3 billion in business revenue and $114 million in local purchases, according to the study’s executive summary. Continue Reading
Huge industry. You can’t tell me the ballast requirements that Cravaack voted against wouldn’t have hurt those numbers.
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It would have kicked it square in its butt. Though the eco-freaks don’t care. They don’t realize that shipping is one of the best ways of reducing pollution in terms of freight hauled by volume. That or there’s people who don’t comprehend that totally revamping a bilge system isn’t like changing a car’s air filter.
Yes there’s ways to improve, but that’s why you work with the shipping industry. Not get a bunch of granola-chewing Mac-using hippies who’ve never even seen a lake freighter designating these rules.
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