{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Place","additionalType":"https://schema.org/Port","name":"Alabaster","identifier":"US LBA","unlocode":"US LBA","city":null,"country":"United States","waterBody":"Lake Huron; Great Lakes","harborSize":"Very Small","harborType":"Open Roadstead","channelDepthMeters":4.9,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":44.183333,"longitude":-83.54999999999998},"description":"Once the shipping point for the alabaster gypsum discovered off this Lake Huron shore in 1837, the port of Alabaster (UN/LOCODE US LBA) in Iosco County, Michigan, no longer operates a commercial marine cargo terminal — its 1928 over-water bucket tramway, at roughly 1,900 metres long once the world's longest, was demolished in the 1990s and the last loading building removed in 2020. The site has never handled containers. Although U.S. Gypsum (USG) revived local mining with the Avery Quarry that o","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/seaports/alabaster-port-us-lba","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/seaports/en/alabaster-port-us-lba","source":null,"provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Freight Academy","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Alabaster · (UN/LOCODE: US LBA) · United States · Very Small · 4.9 m"}