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In October, the Ports of Indiana handled the most freight the system's three facilities have processed since 1996. The October tally also increased 100,000 tons compared with September, when the ports posted their highest monthly tonnage in the past three years.

The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor handled the most freight in October since the facility opened in 1970.

During the year's first 10 months, the ports handled 5.9 millions tons, a 37 percent increase compared with the same 2003 period. The tonnage gain was driven by a year-over-year increase in shipments of steel (64 percent), coal (64 percent), grain (28 percent), fertilizer (18 percent), limestone (8 percent) and salt (6 percent).

Through October, tonnage rose 51 percent at the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon, 29 percent at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor and 26 percent at the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville compared with the same 2003 period.