The Port of Monroe (Port Code:USMON) is the industrial, commercial, and recreational gateway to the City of Monroe, Michigan. Located on Lake Erie and bisected by the River Raisin, the Port of Monroe is Michigan’s only Port on Lake Erie. It is situated 35 miles south of Detroit, Michigan and 17 miles north of Toledo, OH. The Port of Monroe provides an important transportation alternative that many cities and states simply cannot offer to their manufacturers, shippers and suppliers.
The Port of Monroe is a deep-draft commercial harbor with authorized depths of 21 feet in Lake Erie to the turning basin, which has an 18-foot depth. The Port has 1,500 feet of public dock on the turning basin, 2,100 feet of public dock and 1,600 feet of private dock (DTE) on the River Raisin, and approximately 28,000 feet of maintained Federal channel. The Port of Monroe is directly connected to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, which extends 2,340 miles from Duluth, Minnesota eastward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic Ocean. The Port of Monroe boasts over 85 acres of cargo laydown area immediately adjacent to its deep draft dock frontage, while offering over 300 acres of heavy industrial property for transportation related developments.