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Burns Waterway Harbor |
Burns Waterway Harbor | | State | |
Indiana | | Total Trade | |
9,801,740 | | Foreign Imports | |
1,407,268 | | Foreign Exports | |
446,510 | | Foreign Total | |
1,853,778 | | Domestic Total | |
7,947,962 | | | | Description | |
The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor is an industrial area, founded in 1965 and located on the Lake Michigan shore of Indiana at the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and Indiana 249. The primary work done in the area is the manufacturing of steel, and the port area is dominated by steel mills. The port is divided between the municipalities of Burns Harbor and Portage.Construction of the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor was extremely controversial. The port and its steel mills were constructed on top of what was once the Central Dunes region of the Indiana Dunes. Authorization of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which borders the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on three sides, was part of a political compromise that also involved the construction of the port.
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The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor, as of 2009, is dominated by three extensive industrial plants:
Midwest Steel, a unit of the U.S. Steel Corporation
The Indiana works of Mittal Steel, originally constructed by the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation
The Northern Indiana Public Service coal-fired power plant owned by NiSource
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