{"id":1318,"date":"2011-09-20T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:41:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:41:05","slug":"great-lakes-and-seaway-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/20\/great-lakes-and-seaway-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes and Seaway Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Lakes cargo traffic dropped 7 percent from July to August, according to an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/article\/20110920\/GPG03\/109200483\/Great-Lakes-cargo-traffic-sinks-7-percent-from-July-August\">Green Bay Press Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cargo traffic on the Great Lakes dipped almost 7 percent in August from July, but the amount of cargo carried by U.S.-flag freighters last month was on par with the five-year average for the month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joc.com\/breakbulk\/st-lawrence-seaway-traffic-35-percent\">Journal of Commerce<\/a> reports that cargo shipped in the St. Lawrence Seaway rose 3.5 percent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cargo shipped on the St. Lawrence Seaway from late March through August rose 3.5 percent year-over-year, as raw material shipments for the region&#8217;s steel industry grew during one of the historically slowest periods of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Lakes cargo traffic dropped 7 percent from July to August, according to an article in the Green Bay Press Gazette: Cargo traffic on the Great Lakes dipped almost 7 percent in August from July, but the amount of cargo carried by U.S.-flag freighters last month was on par with the five-year average for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[36,81],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime","category-news","tag-great-lakes","tag-st-lawrence-seaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11414,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}