Federal Biscay closes saltie season at Duluth
DULUTH, MN – The 2024 Great Lakes shipping season is coming to a close.
The Federal Biscay left Duluth-Superior Saturday as the last oceangoing departure of the 2024 navigation season.
“It’s our way of being able to help feed the world, so that’s a nice aspect of it and certainly it’s our way for helping regional farmers and producers throughout the upper Midwest get their products to global markets,” said Duluth Seaway Port Authority Director of Communication and Marketing Jayson Hron.
According to officials, the port saw a roughly 19.5% increase in oceangoing vessels this year alone for interlake traffic.
Federal Biscay is carrying durum wheat destined for North Africa. While the departure of Federal Biscay will conclude Duluth-Superior’s oceangoing navigation season, interlake shipping to and from Duluth-Superior will continue through mid-January.
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MHSD’s Ahoy & Farewell III book
documents 30 years of laker history
Ahoy & Farewell III, the third installment of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit’s long-running series marking the MHSD’s 80th anniversary, is now available. The book documents the vessels we welcomed, and those to which we had to bid farewell, during the last 30 years. This 308-page, hardcover book features many color photos, with multiple images of each vessel referenced.
In a departure from the MHSD’s previous volumes, the nearly 308-page, hardcover book includes color photos, with multiple images of every vessel. The book’s authors are marine historians William Moran and Viktor Kaczkowski, and Know Your Ships publisher Roger LeLievre.
“Putting the book together has been a much greater challenge than any of us had expected,” Kaczkowski said. “With the influx of foreign-built new and used tonnage, writing the histories required a lot more research to ensure the information was correct, particularly due to the wide variety of languages that came into play.”
Order Ahoy & Farewell III now at MHSD.org.
