Port of Green Bay

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The Port of Green Bay is a freshwater port located at the mouth of the Fox River on Lake Superior in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States.

The port is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway. The port has two coal terminals: the C. Reiss Terminal and the Fox River Terminal. Together, the two terminals handle several hundred thousand tonnes of coal per year.

Location

The maps below show the coal terminals at the Port of Green Bay along the Fox River. The top map shows the C. Reiss terminal, the larger of the two terminals. The bottom map shows the Fox River Terminal. Directly north of the Fox River terminal, adjacent to Green Bay, lies the site of the retired Pulliam Power Plant, where Green Bay is planning to construct a port expansion to which the C. Reiss Terminal's coal storage piles would be relocated

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History

The Port of Green Bay dates back to the early 1800’s when waterway commerce focused on fur trading and peltry. During the 1800’s British, French and American military forts were built on the lower Fox River. In 1816, the first U.S. flagged sailing vessel arrived with garrison troops and provisions for Fort Howard.

By 1867, the principal commodities exported from Green Bay by sailing vessels were lumber, barrels, shingles, railroad ties and other forest products for building cities like Chicago and New York. In 1871, the Peshtigo Fire destroyed Northeast Wisconsin’s forests and changed the Port of Green Bay.

In the late 1800’s, agricultural products were being exported and Green Bay was known as the largest flour exporting port on the Great Lakes. By the mid 1930’s the Port shifted from exporting to importing with the arrival of coal and petroleum coke. Today, the Port continues to predominately import dry and liquid bulk commodities for Northeastern Wisconsin’s manufacturing businesses.

The modern Port of Green Bay was created by the Brown County Harbor Commission in 1956 in anticipation of the 1959 opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway system, which provides mid-America with a direct water link to the Atlantic Ocean and the world.

Port of Green Bay and coal

The Port of Green Bay's two coal terminals, the C. Reiss Terminal and the Fox River Terminal, are both owned by Robindale Energy. The C. Reiss Terminal is larger, handling 2 million short tons (approximately 1.81 million metric tonnes) of bulk cargo per year, whereas the smaller Fox River Terminal handles 500,000 short tons (approximately 454,000 metric tonnes) of bulk cargo per year.

Coal traffic at the Port of Green Bay peaked in 2006-2007 with more than 1 million short tons handled per year. Coal traffic has declined significantly since then, falling to 407,000 short tons in 2019 and 189,000 short tons in 2020.

In February 2021, Brown County, Wisconsin (where Green Bay is located) approved a plan to purchase the site of the retired Pulliam Power Plant for US$2.7 million. The county plans to relocate the coal piles from the C. Reiss Terminal to the site of the retired power plant to allow new riverfront development at the current C. Reiss site. The county will pay for the purchase using $2.2 million from the Port of Green Bay's Acquisition and Siting Fund and a $500,000 Idle Sites Grant the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. awarded the county in early January. According to Brown County Executive Troy Streckenbach, it could take about five years to complete remediation, dredging and build out for the port. Port officials say that getting the location set up for the new coal piles will cost more than $20 million.

Project Details

• Sponsor: Fox River Terminals LLC; C. Reiss Terminals
• Parent: Robindale Energy
• Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Coal Capacity (Million metric tonnes per annum): 2.27
• Status: Operating
• Type: Exports, Imports
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