{"id":1807,"date":"2010-03-25T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/25\/st-lawrence-seaway-opens-expects-more-tonnage-this-season\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:15:00","slug":"st-lawrence-seaway-opens-expects-more-tonnage-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/25\/st-lawrence-seaway-opens-expects-more-tonnage-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"St Lawrence Seaway opens, expects more tonnage this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St Lawrence Seaway opened this morning at 8:00.<\/p>\n<p>In this 52nd season for the shipping channel, officials expect a 10 to 12 percent increase in the amount of cargo coming through the area.<\/p>\n<p>This blurb is from today&#8217;s press release from the Seaway Management Corporation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Total Seaway cargo volume for 2009 amounted to 30.7 million tonnes, the lowest volume witnessed since the early 1960&#8217;s.&nbsp; The 25% decrease in cargo volume compared to 2008 is attributed to the depth of the recession, which sharply curtailed movements of iron ore and steel on the waterway.&nbsp; For 2010, the SLSMC is projecting a rebound in tonnage volume to 34 million tonnes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each season opening of the Seaway can be controversial. Read and\/or listen to NCPR&#8217;s David Sommerstein reporting on the Seaway opening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/5287\/seaway-opening-remains-controversial\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St Lawrence Seaway opened this morning at 8:00. In this 52nd season for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}