Oct 26 | 2022
Adam Tindall-Schlicht Has Overseen Major Development at Great Lakes Facility
Adam Tindall-Schlicht is leaving his role as director of Port Milwaukee after accepting an unspecified position in the Biden-Harris administration.
Tindall-Schlicht, who joined Port Milwaukee in August 2018, is set to leave his post on 28 October. A spokesperson for the port said an interim director would be announced in the coming weeks, with a search for a permanent replacement starting soon.“My position as port director has been the greatest experience of my professional life thus far,” said Tindall-Schlicht. “Serving the residents of the City of Milwaukee and promoting state-wide economic growth through the port’s commercial, recreational and cruise operations has been a privilege.”
Port Milwaukee is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, one the five Great Lakes.
It boasts dedicated heavy-lift docks with the capability to handle a diverse range of cargo. Onsite machinery includes mobile crawler cranes that can lift up to 300 tonnes.
Typical deliveries of non-containerized general cargo including brewery tanks, mining equipment, forest products, transformers, heavy machinery, manufacturing equipment, steel products and other project cargoes.
The port, which moves about 2.5 million tonnes per year of bulk and breakbulk, recently told Breakbulk it was keen to diversify its project cargo mix, pointing to the arrival in September of a set of superstructures for a 37-metre superyacht.
The port is also working with agricultural supplier DeLong to build a new US$40 million shipping facility for agricultural products, one of the first terminals in the Great Lakes Seaway to handle agricultural commodities such as grains, soy and corn via intermodal transport.
The facility is expected to begin operations in March 2023.
“We are witnessing unparalleled growth across Milwaukee Harbor,” said Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson. “Much of that progress is attributable to Adam, who has been tireless in his advocacy, strategic partnership building, fundraising efforts and stewardship at the port.”
Port Milwaukee is a regular exhibitor at Breakbulk Americas, the region’s largest gathering of breakbulk and project cargo professionals. The next Americas event will take place on 26-28 September 2023 at the George R. Brown Convention Centre in Houston.
