by import2 | June 19, 2022 | Boatnerd News
MacArthur Lock rewatered Saturday UPDATE: The MacArthur Lock was back in service Sunday morning. SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – The MacArthur Lock, which has been out of service while crews continued winter repairs which included replacing the tainter valve machinery, was...
by import2 | June 19, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Trifecta! – Joshua Hebeisen As luck would have it, Saturday, June 18 saw three favorite lakers in their namesake ports at the same time: Alpena loading cement at Alpena, Saginaw discharging stone in Saginaw, and Burns...
by import2 | June 18, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Great Lakes shipping forecast cautiously optimistic As on the inland waterways, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, essential workers on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway kept on working. They navigated their way through new restrictions and precautions, dealt with...
by import2 | June 18, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Paul R. Tregurtha slipped into Duluth one minute before midnight on Thursday evening, bound for another load of low-sulfur western coal at SMET. Across the bay from the...
by import2 | June 17, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Great Lakes-Seaway cargo rose 7% in 2021 Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway ships carried an estimated 149 million metric tons of cargo to and from domestic ports, and to overseas markets during the 2021 shipping season — an increase of 7% over pandemic-stricken 2020, a...
