SB&B Foods President Bob Sinner is interested in efforts to encourage more shipping containers out of the Port of Duluth. Sinner ships food-grade soybeans in container via rail. “As there are fewer carriers in the world running direct routes, big vessels can go into the larger ports and then they can trans-ship to different ports and smaller locations. The same concept could work here.” Containers could be loaded at Duluth and shipped on a small vessel through the St. Lawrence Seaway and on to a bigger port on the East Coast, unloaded and put on vessels in different parts of the world. “It takes outside the box thinking, but it does open up nice ideas and options.”
