New Orleans in the only major container port on the Mississippi River. There are minor container facilities at Baton Rouge and Memphis with equipment such as the Baton Rouge custom made barge stacker. This is a large wheeled vehicle with a crane that has a 30 ton lift capacity and can move 20-22 containers an hour.
On the Great Lakes there are some minor container ports at Burns (Lake Michigan), Detroit (Lake Michigan), Duluth (Lake Superior), Hamilton (Lake Ontario) and Toronto (Lake Ontario). These would include some light cranes or mobile cranes similar to the Baton Rouge barge stacker.
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