Port Reports – July 29, 2022

Port Reports – July 29, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Coming soon: Interactive port facilities map! Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Arriving Duluth late Wednesday night was Hon. James L. Oberstar, loaded with limestone and dolomite from Stoneport and Meldrum Bay....

Boatnerd News – July 28, 2022

Mark W. Barker embarks on maiden voyage  STURGEON BAY, WI – Nearly three years after the first cut of steel for the first Great Lakes freighter in nearly 40 years, the 639-foot M/V Mark W. Barker embarked on her maiden voyage Wednesday from Fincantieri Bay...
Port Reports – July 28, 2022

Port Reports – July 28, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Coming soon: Interactive port facilities map! Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Making her first Twin Ports visit of the season at 10:33 Wednesday morning was American Steamship Company’s 1,004-foot...
Port Reports – July 27, 2022

Port Reports – July 27, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Coming soon: Interactive port facilities map! Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen At 08:19 on Sunday, July 24, Mesabi Miner departed Duluth for Indiana Harbor after a quick load of pellets at the CN Dock 6...
Boatnerd News – July 26, 2022

Boatnerd News – July 26, 2022

Veteran cement carrier S.T. Crapo sold for scrapping According to the Facebook page of Wayne Elliott, owner of International Marine Salvage, the long-inactive steamer S.T. Crapo will be towed from Green Bay to Port Colborne for scrapping some time in September. Only...