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Côte Ste. Catherine & St. Lambert (2 Locks)

The Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence Seaway System

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Eisenhower & Snell (2 Locks)

The World’s Longest Inland Deep Draft Marine Highway

Welland Canal (8 Locks)

The St. Lawrence Seaway’s 15 locks connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean Sault Ste. Marie (“Soo” Locks) Commercial Locks Managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Welland Canal (8 Locks)

Iroquois, Eisenhower & Snell Locks

Lake Erie

Beauharnois Locks Côte Ste. Catherine & St. Lambert Locks

Lake Superior

Lake Huron

How a Lock Works

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That’s as high as a 60 story building

Metres

Lake Ontario

Sea Level Atlantic Ocean 

St. Lawrence River Lake Michigan

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Cargo moving on the Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence Seaway supports:

35 Billion

in Economic Activity

Ships Smallest Carbon Footprint 75.5 11.9

227,000

$

Jobs

14.6 Billion

$

in Wages

Ships Best Fuel Efficiency

Shifting Cargo from Land to Water

243 km

14.2

213 km

Lowers congestion on our highways and railways

Raises our overall fuel efficiency

Lowers total greenhouse gas emissions

35 km

 Distance (kilometres) one tonne of cargo travels on 1 litre of fuel 

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Rail Cars

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Cargo of up to 30,000 Tonnes

Seaway as built / operated in 1959 Vessels navigate using 3D electronic charts and satellite global positioning systems

State-of-the-art Seaway “Laker” in the 21st century

One of the Seaway’s traffic control centres

Example of a vessel’s “bridge” (from which the captain commands the ship)

Welland Canal Locks 4, 5 and 6

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The St. Lawrence Seaway is the gateway to the heart of North America, and is considered to be one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Since opening in 1959, Seaway ships have moved over 2.75 billion tonnes of cargo worth about $400 billion! In Canada, The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (a not for profit) manages and operates the 13 Canadian locks for the owner, the Government of Canada. In the U.S. a federal agency called the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation manages the Seaway’s two U.S. locks.

SOURCES : 1) The Economic Impacts of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System (Martin Associates, October 2011)

2) Environmental and Social Impacts of Marine Transport in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Region (Research and Traffic Group, January 2013)