Port of Cleveland and Lubrizol Corp. agreed to export specialty chemicals to Europe through the Cleveland-Europe Express (CEE) service, offered by the Port of Cleveland and the Spliethoff Group of the Netherlands.
Lubrizol is the first large Ohio company to switch to CEE and with the Port’s recent purchase of two mobile cranes to make loading faster, the CEE switch seems like a great idea.
Dubbed the Cleveland-Europe Express (CEE), the service is the only scheduled ocean service between the Great Lakes and the rest of the world.
Until now, the specialty chemicals company had been shipping its products in containers on railroad cars to ports in New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk, Va., where the cargo was put on a ship to Europe. The company found it could ship to France at the same cost and with the same shipping time and also could see advantages to shipping to Belgium and Germany.
Joyce said the company also found that by shipping from the Port of Cleveland, it could better schedule its production runs, “which is going to pay dividends in the long run.”
“This is a big deal,” said Will Friedman, president and CEO of the port, because not only is Lubrizol “a terrific company in our region and a leader in the specialty chemical industry, it is one of the biggest exporters to Europe in Ohio.”
