CHICAGO

The Port of Chicago is one of the largest ports in the United States and the largest inland port in the world, located at the southwest end of Lake Michigan near the mouth of the Chicago River. The Port of Chicago can take the St. Lawrence Inland Waterway directly to Europe, or provide barge transportation to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River. Distribution of Port Area The Port of Chicago includes two major port areas, Indiana and CALUMET, with a dock shoreline of over 10000 meters and a coastal water depth of about 7 meters. The dock facilities are well-equipped and almost all are connected by railway lines. As early as 1984, the port began transporting double decker container trains. The travel time from Chicago to major ports such as Seattle, Portland, Long Beach, and Oakland is within 7 days. From Yokohama, Japan, to Seattle Port, from the North Pacific Railroad, the main east-west railway line in the United States, through Chicago to the New York terminal, it takes only 13 days to arrive, which is one week faster than from the Panama Canal. So the US President Shipping Company, Danish Maersk Line, and Japanese Kawasaki Steamship Company all use this port as a transit station for container transportation. Therefore, the development of international multimodal transportation such as door-to-door, door-to-door, port to door, and port to port in the Port of Chicago is becoming increasingly busy. The area of Hong Kong's foreign trade zone is 100000 square meters. The annual cargo throughput capacity is about 50 million tons. The main export goods are agricultural machinery, meat products, scrap iron, leather, oil, grains, and various industrial products. The imported goods mainly include mineral sand, automobiles, steel, petrochemicals, and miscellaneous goods. traffic conditions Chicago has a highly developed transportation industry and is known as the "artery of America". It is the largest air freight center and railway hub in the United States, as well as the largest inland port in the world. In 1848, after the completion of the Illinois Michigan Canal connecting the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River system, as well as the railroad running through the east and west, Chicago became a hub for water and land transportation. There are three airports, with O'Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport located in the suburbs. Among them, O'Hare International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, with air traffic, passenger numbers, and cargo tonnage ranking among the top in the United States and even the world, receiving 69 million passengers annually. There are 37 main railway lines, with approximately 35000 freight cars traveling daily. There are also 200 freight stations, four freight ports, 8 suburban railways, and 1013.8 kilometers of highways leading to the city center, providing fast and convenient transportation. The Port of Chicago is one of the largest ports in the United States, providing direct access to Europe via the St. Lawrence Inland Waterway and barge transportation to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River. Mechanical equipment situation in the port area There are various types of loading and unloading equipment, including shore cranes, mobile cranes, container cranes, grain unloaders, loaders, tugboats, and roll on/roll off facilities. The maximum lifting capacity of mobile cranes is 30 tons, and the maximum power of tugboats is 1765 kW. The port area has a warehouse area of 174000 square meters, an open-air yard area of 488000 square meters, and a container yard area of 260000 square meters. Loading and unloading efficiency: 350 tons of cement per hour, 250 tons of grain per hour. The anchorage of the large ship has a water depth of up to 20 meters. The annual cargo throughput capacity is about 65 million tons. The main export goods are oil, natural gas, chemical products, wool, leather, and pearls, while the imported goods mainly include cement, vehicles, food, building materials, machinery and equipment, and groceries. Overtime is not allowed on holidays and Fridays. natural conditions The Port of Chicago has a temperate continental climate, with an average summer temperature of about 23 ℃ and an average winter temperature of -5 ℃. Due to the ice cover on the St. Lawrence Channel, the annual sailing season is from April 15th to November 15th. The average annual rainfall is about 800mm. The Illinois Michigan Canal turns Chicago into a port city The Illinois Michigan Canal, opened in the 19th century, connected Chicago inland with the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, turning it into a port city. The ocean giant ship sailed straight from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to the Chicago port. Chicago is a railway hub in the United States, where dozens of railways intersect and connect major cities; It also has O'Hare International Airport, one of the busiest international airports in the world; Therefore, Chicago can be called the center of east-west transportation, water, land, and air transportation in the United States.