Sault Ste. Marie (Port)

Sault Ste. Marie, ON · Transport Canada · Transport Canada · St. Marys River

Sault Ste. Marie is a Transport Canada public port on the north shore of the St. Marys River, which connects Lake Superior and Lake Huron at the heart of the Great Lakes shipping network. A new public-access deep-water commercial port is under development near Algoma Steel's Export Dock, led by the City of Sault Ste. Marie in partnership with the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA), with planning/technical funding from Transport Canada (~$405,300) and FedNor ($233,100). The roughly $200-million business case covers an initial 216 acres of waterfront industrial land (expandable to ~950 acres) with refurbished dock walls for two-vessel berthing, rail transload facilities tied to Algoma Central Railway, and tenant-ready cargo handling areas, positioned as the northern anchor of a North-South trade corridor for regional critical minerals, forestry/forest bioproducts, biofuels, aggregates, and advanced manufacturing. It is operated/developed separately from the privately held Port of Algoma (Essar) dock, though Algoma Steel is expected to be a primary user.