Algoma Transport due at scrapyard first week of January

Marine Recycling Corp. update: Tecumseh is up out of the water at Marine Recycling Corp. Port
Colborne On. Norisle next out and Algoma Transport expected to arrive under her own power
to Port Colborne first week of January. She departed Toledo with coal at Hamilton on Friday.

MRC – Wayne Elliott

Federal Alster crewman injured at Soo Locks

Sault Ste. Marie, MI – A crewman from the Fednav vessel Federal Alster had to be taken by
ambulance to MyMichigan Medical Center in Sault Ste. Marie around noon Friday after he was
injured when a cable broke as the vessel was approaching the Poe Lock downbound.

There is no update on his injuries.

The vessel, which loaded at Duluth, locked through and continued her voyage to Montreal.

Jim Lehocky

Great Lakes ice coverage lagging behind previous years as first signs of formation appear

DETROIT, MI – Another sign of winter’s icy grip coming to Michigan has surfaced, this time in
the form of the first sightings of ice cover on the Great Lakes. According to an ice tracker that
pulls data from NOAA, 1% of Lake Superior has ice cover. Lake Michigan also has some ice
coverage in Wisconsin’s Green Bay, as well as Big Bay De Noc and Little Bay de Noc, which is
attached to the southern shore of the Upper Peninsula.

Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario haven’t reported any ice cover as of Dec. 19.

Ice cover has increasingly become an elusive feature of the Great Lakes as warming winters
disrupt normal processes of the lakes freezing over. Tracking ice coverage for the 2023-2024
winter is still on the early side, but there are early signs this year will be below the average.
Over the past 50 years, the average ice coverage over all the Great Lakes by Dec. 19 is about
5%. Ice coverage averages are down in all the Great Lakes with Lake Huron coming in the
furthest from the norm. Typically, 7% of the lake has ice on it. But this season, there is virtually
no ice.

Other signs of a warm winter this season is a forecast from FOX Weather that finds most in the
U.S. will not experience a snowy Christmas. Models show no major snowstorms in the final days
before Dec. 25.

FOX 2 Detroit