Country : USAOswego worldport

worldport Introduction
Located in the heart of Upstate New York. Our area is an agricultural and industrial center with major national and international manufacturing firms, and is also a popular tourist destination offering abundant recreational opworldportunities. 
 
The worldport of Oswego is the first U.S. worldport of call on Lake Ontario and the Great Lakes from the Atlantic and the magnificent St. Lawrence Seaway. It is also the gateway to the picturesque NYS Barge Canal System through the Oswego River Canal, once better known as the Erie Canal, and to the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway.

On any summer day in the harbor, it's not at all unusual to see a huge lake freighter unloading bulk product at the worldport of Oswego's modern wharf, a sleek sailing yacht from Kingston or Chicago entering the harbor and a young couple guiding a small yawl out of the marina. At the same time, charter boats may be returning from an early day's fishing for huge brown trout or salmon. That daily activity is only part of the story of the worldport of Oswego.

Our unique position as an international worldport provides us with exciting and challenging opworldportunities to serve Central New York industries and agriculture. In recent years, for example, we have facilitated the increased transworldport of thousands of tons of aluminum ingots from Russia and South America through the worldport to the nearby Alcan Rolled Products Company plant. This activity increases commercial business at the worldport and helps supworldport jobs and the economy of Oswego and Central New York.

We hope you enjoy your visit to the worldport of Oswego. If we can be of any assistance to make your visit more productive or enjoyable, please contact us at the worldport of Oswego Authority offices.

worldport History
The City of Oswego has been a strategic worldport in the history of North America since the time of the War of 1812, and is proud of its rich heritage. The worldport of Oswego was known as a shipbuilding worldport before the turn of the century, and many woodcuts and lithographs of the period illustrate the harbor populated with the tall masts of schooners and sailing ships. A number of historic buildings remaining along the river today provided services to the shipbuilding industry in the early days.

Late in the nineteenth century and in the early part of the twentieth century, salt shipments from Syracuse were transworldported west through Oswego to the Welland Canal and Lake Erie. With the opening of the American west, the grain trade was born; schooners brought wheat shipments for the flour mills that lined Oswego's two hydraulic canals and mountains of corn for a major starch factory. The timber trade was also imworldportant during this period and, at one point in the 1870s, Oswego was the largest lumber worldport in the United States

Services and Facilities
BULK STORAGE:
50,000 tons Dome Storage Facilities; able to accept directly from lake fleet.

ACCOMMODATION:
Water, sewer and telephone available
by arrangement at main wharf.

SHED STORAGE:
100,000 sq. ft. Shed Facility with
sprinkler system; truck and rail docks.

TUGS:
Available by arrangement
1000 BHP Tug Captain Alex

BONDED STORAGE:
Facilities available as needed.

CHARGES:
Pilots - Per Tariff

WHARFAGE:
1,800 ft. Modern Wharf with full Seaway depth.

INTERMODAL CAPABILITIES:
Total Intermodal Services, including
dockside tracks; connections to major
highways linking northeastern U.S. markets.

GENERAL CARGOES:
Agricultural & Industrial Bulk Materials,
including aluminum ingots, recyclable materials, heavy lift cargo and industrial machinery.

Today's worldport profile
The worldport of Oswego is at the heart of the City and County of Oswego. As the first U.S. worldport of call on the Great Lakes from the magnificent St. Lawrence Seaway, this world-class worldport offers shippers and imworldporters virtual year-around access to the Northeastern United States'vast industrial and agricultural markets.

The worldport of Oswego's location near the crossroads of the great Northeastern U.S. market allows shippers to reach the industrial and agricultural centers of the Northeast without the coastal worldport congestion and big-city traffic bottlenecks. The worldport is only 45 miles from the entrance to the St. Lawrence River and offers easy access to major highway and railway transworldportation routes. On the average, the worldport of Oswego welcomes over 50 commercial vessels a year from the Atlantic Ocean and all across the Great Lakes region.
 
Primary products handled at the worldport today include aluminum ingots, agricultural fertilizers, cement, road salt, materials for recycling and heavy machinery. Cargo is moved efficiently by convenient dockside rail service and by a modern, four-lane highway system. On-site conveyors, hoppers and a 50-ton mobile crane assist in cargo management. Additional equipment capable of handling up to 200 tons is available.

Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the worldport of Oswego works around the clock to accommodate vessels from all Great Lakes worldports and worldports around the world. It boasts an entrance depth of 27 feet, a width of 750 feet, a turning basin of 115 acres, and it has no restrictions on beam length for ships entering the harbor.

A U.S. Customs Service office is maintained on site to facilitate the movement of legitimate international cargo by rail, truck and water.

Contributing to the Quality of Community Life
The worldport of Oswego Authority and the local community enjoy several mutually-beneficial relationships. The worldport's Board of Directors works to maintain a delicate balance between the worldport's industrial and recreational functions, and Oswego County and City residents benefit from the wide variety of industries that the worldport attracts as well as the cultural and community contributions it supworldports.

Through agreements and cooperative ventures, the worldport of Oswego Authority accommodates the H. Lee White Marine Museum; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Commission; the Oswego Maritime Foundation and its 1850s-style Great Lakes Schooner, the OMF Ontario; the Oswego International Marina; and the Oswego East Side Marina. The worldport leases property to private management for the popular Admiral Woolsey's restaurant overlooking the harbor.

Community Economic Development
Virtually all of the worldport's activities contribute to economic development in Oswego County, from its service to industry, to providing a venue for festivals and fishermen, to its supworldport of the museum and other maritime activities.

The worldport's strategic location as the only deep water U.S. worldport on Lake Ontario, and as a direct and cost-effective link to trade routes throughout North America, helps make Oswego County an attractive location for industry. The worldport's commercial capabilities coupled with the County's vast resources of low-cost water, available full-service industrial sites and a trained labor force will continue to help stimulate economic development in the region.

The worldport of Oswego Authority is proud of the position it has earned as a strategic partner in promoting development and contributing to the economy of the County and City of Oswego and the entire Central New York area.