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Port Type:   Seaport

Port Size:   Medium

The Port of Erie lies on the southeastern shores of Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. The Port of Erie is about 140 kilometers southwest of the Port of Buffalo (New York) and about 150 kilometers east-northeast of the Port of Cleveland (Ohio), two other major ports on Lake Erie. The city is home to a diverse manufacturing community that makes locomotives, electrical equipment, plastics, machinery and metal products, hospital equipment, chemicals, paper, and rubber products. Being Pennsylvania's only port on the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Port of Erie is in a strategic location for the transport of coke, steel, iron ore, stone, salt, and scrap metal.
The Port of Erie and O-N Minerals Erie offer cargo shippers on the Great Lakes/Seaway System the finest facilities available. With 85 million people within a 500 mile radius, Port Erie and O-N Minerals are at the hub of the US and Canadian Industrial Center. Erie also boasts Erie Shipbuilding repair/construction facility.