GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Industrial activity appears to be on the rise in the Midwest, if an increase in traffic at the Port of Green Bay is any indication.
Officials say the total tonnage exported from the Green Bay harbor is 23 percent more than a year ago in the first two months of the shipping season.
A warmer spring allowed the port to open earlier, thus increasing port activities in April. In May, about the same number of ships came in and out of Green Bay as the previous year — 24 of them.
Cement, salt, and coal shipments are on the rise.
Port director Dean Haen said exports of gasoline, ethanol, and diesel fuel spurred the overall increase in tonnage this year.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
