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2020 Photo Contest Winners
The Great Lakes Seaway Partnership today announced the winners of their third annual photo contest. This announcement also marks the beginning of the organization’s fourth annual photo contest only a few weeks after the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway on March 24, 2021. Each year, to celebrate the start of the Great Lakes navigation…
Read MoreAssembly Begins On Historic New Great Lakes Freighter
Interlake Steamship Co. celebrated with the shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, by naming the vessel on Tuesday. The first U.S.-flagged lake freighter built on the Great Lakes in more than 35 years celebrated milestones this week, earning its name and seeing the start of its assembly Tuesday at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon…
Read MorePhase One of New Soo Lock Project Set to Begin
The project for a new Soo Lock is taking a major step forward. The US Army Corp of Engineers announced phase one construction started this week. Phase one will begin with deepening the upstream channel. The Army Corp says equipment was moved on site earlier this week. It’s the start in creating a…
Read MoreU.S. Great Lakes Shipping Begins The 2020 Sailing Season Amid The Challenges Of COVID-19
CLEVELAND, OHIO (March 24, 2020) – The first U.S.-flag commercial vessel, known as “lakers,” will transit the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in the early hours of Wednesday, March 25, signaling the start of the 2020 sailing season. They carry the materials that drive the U.S. economy: iron ore for steel, stone and cement…
Read MorePort City Review: These 20 Seaport Communities Help Drive The U.S. Economy
Ports are “crucial to the economy,” Texas economist Ray Perryman wrote in 2017. “Ports generate substantial business activity through their operations, but those benefits are dwarfed by the huge importance of water transportation to other industries.” In this survey of 20 U.S. port cities, we look at various engines of economic development and see how they…
Read MoreState Awards $4.9M Grant To Support Agricultural Transload Facility At Port Milwaukee
Governor Tony Evers announced a $4.9 million Harbor Assistance Program grant on February 24 to support the construction of a new agricultural commodity bulk vessel transload facility at Port Milwaukee. The $31.3 million facility, the first of its kind on the Great Lakes, is being constructed at the port by the DeLong Company. The transload…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Ports Storm Capitol Hill
American Great Lakes Ports Association in solidarity. On March 4th & 5th, members of the American Great Lakes Ports Association fanned out across Capitol Hill in the association’s first Washington fly-in. Meetings included elected officials in both the House and Senate, Congressional committee staff, maritime agency leaders, and the Great Lakes governors’ representatives in…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Shipping Fleet Prepares for 2020
More than $97 million in maintenance and modernization is underway on U.S.-flag Lakers idled for winter work at multiple Great Lakes shipyards. After working around the clock for 10 months hauling cargo over more than 70,000 miles per vessel, the ships and their crews are given a brief rest to recoup before the next season…
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