Welcome to this web site.

This website as you will find is dedicated to informing you about globalization and how it is affecting Oklahoma through the use of its ports and waterways.

The Webster’s Dictionary gives the definition to globalize or globalization as to make global; especially: to make worldwide in scope or application.

Globalization occurs all around the world but this page is to focus on globalization in Oklahoma and even more specifically on the port of Catoosa and the Port of Muskogee.  The port of Catoosa is located five miles from Tulsa and is on the McClellan Kerr Arkansas River navigation system.  It plays a role in globalization due to the products produced here at the Port of Catoosa. But more importantly that it uses products from other places or countries to produce these products.  This brings jobs to Tulsa and surrounding cities. This brings money from other countries to Tulsa and Oklahoma in general so the inland water system that the Port of Catoosa lies on plays a major role in globalization. There are fifty businesses in the Port of Catoosa.  The Port of Catoosa has 2000 acres of land for the port to be able to expand. “There are many ports along the McClellan Kerr Arkansas River navigation system including the port of Muskogee and the port of Pittsburgh. The Port of Muskogee lies right on the out skirts of the Oklahoma town for which it is named and it also located right on the banks of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. This port is important to Oklahoma economic industry because of the business that it brings into Oklahoma and the jobs that it creates. There is a wealth of industry and there is also more than what can be named going in and out of this port in one day. For example in 1994 there is a chart of the commodities that are shipped on waterways through these ports and to where they are being shipped. The most common good that are shipped on the water ways are dry bulk, agricultural, general dry cargo and liquid bulk. We know these things as: iron, steel, coal, coke, grain and fertilizers are just to name a few. “Commodities shipped in 1996 included: 1,178,168 tons of chemical fertilizer; 512,632 tons of farm products; 4,295,994 tons of sand/gravel & rock; 902,831 tons of iron & steel; 399,797 tons of petroleum products; 1,286,500 tons of wheat; and 772,324 tons of soybeans”. The Port of Muskogee and the Port of Catoosa are the two main ports that are located here in Oklahoma. The port of Muskogee is home to many companies that use this port to export goods to other parts of this country and other countries. For example we found on the Historical Web Site for the Arkansas River that “90+ industries and 5200 employees are located at the five public ports on the system. These public ports are located at Catoosa, Muskogee, Ft. Smith, Little Rock and Pine Bluff. There are approximately 50 private ports.”