Video: Midwest shippers expand use of Great Lakes
William Shakespeare said “sweet are the uses of adversity.” Or the more modern version of making lemonade from lemons. The supply chain challenge of 2020 and 2021 sparked responses from creative thinking and turned into opportunities and diversity in how goods get from one point to another. Much has been reported about shipping on the coasts, but the Great Lakes region is employing new and cost effective ways to move goods out of the Midwest.
The following story was done by Detroit PBS and their Great Lakes Now program. Laura Weber Davis reports in our Cover Story.