Feeders collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals where they are loaded to bigger vessels.
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While container shipping is currently uncommon on the Great Lakes, a proposal for shipping containers from the port of Oswego on Lake Ontario in upstate New York down the Saint Lawrence Seaway for transfer to larger ocean-going ships at Melford International Terminal in Nova Scotia is currently (2008) being considered.
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