How important is this development to the Detroit area?

New terminal coming to Port of Monroe

[The 1,000-foot James R. Barker freighter] will soon have company in the likes of container ships. Those 40′ metal boxes are the most popular way to move cargo worldwide. And they’ve yet to have a foothold on the Detroit River or the Great Lakes, for that matter....

In the 2023 bipartisan budget, there’s about $15 million in state funds to add another boat hold, railroad spurs to allow containers and another $5 million in federal funds to put in a customs scanning facility.

The idea is to move freight from the location out to the St. Lawrence Seaway....

... you won’t see those [ocean-going] monster container ships there. But smaller ships on those waters.
[Those] who are putting this together say that they can cut three or four days off the shipping over to Europe.