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How does
Huntington, West Virginia qualify as a port city? Besides being counterintuitive, I see nothing about the "port" of Huntington in the article on that city. Looks like bullcrap to me, but I'll wait a while for someone to explain . . .
Unschool (
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07:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)reply
Huntington is a river port, with a fleet of barges handling coal and petroleum products. The port activities are described in the article at
Huntington,_West_Virginia#River. A standard definition of a [
port includes anywhere that ships load and unload - the article on
ports also specifically includes river ports as well as
inland ports.
Euryalus (
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08:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)reply
I have reason to believe the source used for this article is incorrect. Many of the cargo tonnages are highly inflated from what I can find on the individual ports themselves. Can we have a second opinion?
The main reference for the tonnage for this list of ports is a few years old, from 2004, and the link no longer works anyway. I found
this reference for 2008; perhaps, if no one leaps forward to volunteer, I'll work on this when I can.
Northumbrian (
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04:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)reply
New York Harbor has always figured as one the very top ports in the USA. Not even in the top 149 now or what? I've been to both NYC and Vicksburg, Mississippi recently and find it impossible to believe NYC is suddenly handling less cargo than that steamboat port. — Preceding
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72.224.126.241 (
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03:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Elsewhere on Wikipedia the Port of New York and New Jersey is described as the nation's third largest port, and the largest port on the East Coast. So I think someone needs to fix this. — Preceding
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67.110.212.132 (
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20:16, 1 December 2012 (UTC)reply
New York Harbor is part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, which is currently 3rd on this list (~133 million short tons per year in 2016). Note that as New Orleans and Southern Louisiana have recovered from hurricane Katrina over the last 10+ years, their volume of cargo has increased significantly. With room to expand along the Mississippi River and serving the entire central US, it would not surprise me if New Orleans (~90 million short tons in 2016) surpassed New York and New Jersey eventually.
Elriana (
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21:05, 17 January 2018 (UTC)reply