What are the current issues with respect to navigation on the Great Lakes?
The Great Lakes have also served as a valuable shipping lane for large cargo ships transporting goods to and from cities around the perimeters of the lakes. Recently the U.S. Congress has shown interest in reviving the declining shipping industry. Consequently, it funded the Army Corps of Engineers to update the 1985 Connecting Harbors and Channels study to explore the possibility of increasing commercial navigation in the Great Lakes. Although the original Harbors and Channels study found that it was not economically viable, the Army Corps of Engineers reconnaissance study, “The Great Lakes Navigation Study Report” (February 2003) argues that an expansion of the navigation system would attract large-volume container vessels away from ports on the east coast of Canada and the United States and boost shipping traffic in the Great Lakes. To facilitate these larger ocean-going ships, the governments of Canada and the United States would have to build bigger locks and deepen shipping chann
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