Just got back from Toronto with some of our LP leadership team from the 3rd Highway H20 conference.

Highway H20 is a wonderful “back to the future” effort to alleviate the growing congestion/backlog in our ocean port cities, on our highways, bridges and rails, and to utilize a largely underutilized resource (the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway) to move containers in a more environmentally-friendly manner.

This would not only take trucks off of our highways, spew less gas into the environment and save fuel, but it would create jobs and viability by making the inland port cities such as Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, Duluth more active once again.

Containers–or “cans”–basically the trailer part of a tractor-trailer that can be put into a ship and moved across the world–are the new way the world moves. ANYTHING that fits into a truck for export TO ANYWHERE overseas, or FROM ANYWHERE, goes into one of these containers. Next time you’re driving on I-90 or I-79, take a look. You’ll see them.

Highway H20 would use the Great Lakes System to bring some of these (there are over 500,000 a year coming into Halifax alone!) by water DIRECTLY to the population centers that comprise the old industrial heartland of America. A simple, practical idea whose time has come.

Logistics Plus looks forward to helping make this concept a reality starting in 2008!

Exciting stuff.

More to come.

Stay tuned :)

JB