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What is America's largest inland port?
This question came up last night when I was watching Jeopardy with Yana. Try to guess before looking under the fold...
I thought it was Duluth, but sorry me that is not in the top twenty. (Wasn't it the right answer about fifty years ago?) The correct answer is Huntington, on the Ohio River, with St. Louis as number two. Here are the top twenty.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 19, 2006 at 07:05 PM in Data Source | Permalink
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It says that "'Inland Ports' are ports that are located on rivers and do not handle deep draft ship traffic." Which excludes everything on the Great Lakes, such as Duluth. I think if you could find the numbers for Great Lakes ports, Duluth and Chicago and the Port of Indiana and Detroit would all be up there, probably larger than Huntington, et al.
Posted by: D T Nelson at Jan 19, 2006 8:09:31 PM
Yeah, that was fairly dependent on an arbitrary definition of "inland"
Posted by: Bergamot at Jan 19, 2006 9:01:46 PM
Yeah... I agree with Bergamot. My first thought was Seattle, since Puget Sound is so far inland (Maybe it is, but the link is bad, so I can't see the list).
Posted by: John at Jan 19, 2006 9:17:22 PM
Yeah, I went for "Houston." Definition wasn't clear.
Posted by: Ted at Jan 19, 2006 9:40:22 PM
What about Portland? It is an inland, fresh-water port that is able to accommodate even the largest ocean-going ships. Ship sizes in Great Lakes ports are limited by Welland Canal clearances, while the Mississippi/Ohio river ports north of Baton Rouge can accommodate barges only.
Posted by: Peter at Jan 19, 2006 11:12:20 PM
If you read the footnote, it's pretty amazing. The definition of the port of Huntington was changed from a 14-mile stretch (I presume pretty much the city of Huntington) to a 100-mile of the Ohio. I don't know the character of the port services along that stretch of the Ohio River, but that strikes me as not really the largest single port. Why not add, say, Mt. Vernon, IL, to St. Louis? There, you have a new largest inland port.
Posted by: Tom at Jan 19, 2006 11:12:35 PM
Interesting, I had no idea.
Posted by: Chris Meisenzahl at Jan 20, 2006 8:17:01 AM
I think their definition is actually pretty standard. Ocean ports are defined as transfer points between deep-draft, ocean-going ships and other forms of transportation. To serve as transfer points, they must be far enough inland both to shelter the ships from ocean weather for orderly unloading, and to optimize the cost tradeoffs between ocean shipping and rail, trucks, inland shipping, etc. Thus Portland, Seattle, and Oakland make great ports, better than towns actually on the coast. Inland ports, on the other hand, are transfer points between inland shipping and rail or truck transportation. It all makes sense if you think of it in economic terms (points where the optimal mode of transport changes) rather than geographic terms (distance from the sea).
OTH, I don't know whether the Huntington port's 100-mile size is more about politics or about optimal organization size.
Posted by: DK at Jan 20, 2006 8:38:17 AM
Huntington is shockingly massive, bigger than Los Angeles in total tonage. Check out the stats here: http://www.aapa-ports.org/industryinfo/statistics.htm
Posted by: Ted Craig at Jan 20, 2006 9:01:57 AM
Sayeth DK: "Inland ports, on the other hand, are transfer points between inland shipping and rail or truck transportation."
Well, that'd identify Chicago and the Port of Indiana. I suspect there's something else going on here.
Posted by: Donald A. Coffin at Jan 20, 2006 9:48:58 AM
Donald: "inland shipping" means barges and other shallow-draft, not-ocean-capable ships. I think Chicago and Indiana get deep-draft, ocean-going ships. the key here is that boats matter more than geography.
Posted by: DK at Jan 20, 2006 11:59:31 AM
Did any of the contestants on Jeopardy get it? I guess not.
Posted by: lee at Jan 20, 2006 1:51:51 PM
They only had to answer the name of the river, not the port itself. If I remember correctly, one contestant got the right answer.
Posted by: Eric Knight at Jan 20, 2006 6:01:41 PM
I wonder how they determine tons. If a barge floats through St. Louis on the Mississippi, is it included or does that barge need to stop and either add or remove cargo? I would guess 95% of all cargo going through St. Louis is one of three products, corn, soybeans or coal. The further south you go along the river the higher the size of the port.
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it states on the texas facts sheet, that Laredo TX, is home to the worlds largest inland port??
Posted by: chad atwood at Apr 21, 2008 9:32:12 PM
The problem with the question is not so much the use of the word "inland" (which was correctly explained by DK), but term "largest." Ranking ports by geographic size would be pointless, so in this context, largest usually means "busiest," ie, how many tons of cargo the port handles. The reference cited by Tyler not only is from 2003 (the latest data available is 2006), but uses "trip ton-miles" as the ranking. This too is pointless, as that means that if barges leave one port and travel farther, on average, than barges leaving another port, then the first port is busier? That's an odd way of looking at it. Here is how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the ones who track waterborne traffic) rank the ports:
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/portton06.htm
The ports that have no foreign cargo are generally the inland river ports (obviously, Valdez, AK is an exception). Thus, the top 5 inland ports are (ranking among all port in parentheses):
1. Huntington-Tristate (7)
2. Pittsburgh (18)
3. St. Louis (26)
4. Memphis (39)
5. Cincinnati (47)
The list I linked to includes Great Lakes ports. In the ranking among all ports, Duluth is 15th.
To answer Steve Roberts' question, a barge floating by St. Louis, would be considered "through traffic" which is not counted toward a port's traffic volume.
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