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Duluth, Minn., Port Struggles to Clear Ice Blockages.

Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 17--Ice is nice, but no money ain't funny.

Three days of high winds jammed ice into the western corner of Lake Superior for a second time this month, snarling traffic in and out of the Duluth-Superior Harbor.

And in the shipping industry, time is money.

As of Thursday, about 52 commercial vessels -- lakers and salties -- had arrived in the harbor. But as of the same date a year ago, about 76 had arrived.

Mother Nature is slowing up the traffic "and that s

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