Côte Ste. Catherine & St. Lambert (2 Locks) The / Beauharnois (2 Locks) St. Lawrence

Iroquois (1 ) Seaway System

wrence La Se . a t w S a y Eisenhower & Snell (2 Locks) The World’s Longest Inland

Welland Deep Draft Marine Highway (8 Locks)

The St. Lawrence Seaway’s 15 locks connect the Great Lakes to the How a Lock Works Sault Ste. Marie (“Soo” Locks) Commercial Locks Managed by Canal Iroquois, Eisenhower the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (8 Locks) & Snell Locks

Lake Erie Beauharnois Locks That’s as high as a 60 Côte Ste. Catherine story building Lake & St. Lambert Locks Superior Metres Lake Sea Level St. Lawrence River Atlantic Ocean 

Cargo moving on the Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence $35 Billion 227,000 $14.6 Billion Seaway supports: in Economic Activity Jobs in Wages

Ships Smallest Carbon Footprint Best Fuel Efficiency Shifting Cargo from Land to Water 75.5 243 km

11.9 14.2 213 km Lowers congestion Raises our Lowers total on our highways overall fuel greenhouse 35 km and railways efficiency gas emissions

    CO2 grams per tonne/km Distance (kilometres) one tonne of cargo travels on 1 litre of fuel

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Cargo of up to 30,000 Tonnes

Seaway as built / operated in 1959 One of the Seaway’s Vessels navigate traffic control centres using 3D electronic charts and satellite global positioning systems

State-of-the-art Seaway Example of a vessel’s “bridge” “Laker” in the 21st century (from which the captain commands the )

Welland Canal Locks 4, 5 and 6

 Sponsored by  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. www.greatlakes-seaway.com

Copyright © 2015 The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. 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 All rights reserved. (Research and Traffic Group, January 2013)