Port reports are compiled from volunteer reader observations and AIS transmissions. Please send information about vessel arrivals and departures from your port to news@boatnerd.net by 9 p.m. (Eastern) nightly for them to be included in the next day’s news. Please include name of vessel, arrival time, day and dock it went to (if known). We welcome new reporters. If your port is not included, we would welcome your contributions. We are particularly looking for reporters for the St. Marys River, Southern Lake Michigan ports, Detroit, Toledo and the Hamilton/Toronto area.
Duluth-Superior – Scott Bjorklund
Duluth Entry: Salty Heerengracht arrived at 23:24 (CST) Saturday night to unload general cargo at Port Terminal. Great Republic arrived at 05:38 Sunday morning to unload limestone at CN-Hallett #5. Joseph L. Block departed at 19:19 Sunday evening with a mixed cargo of blast furnace trim and sinter feed for Burns Harbor. As of Sunday night, Heerengracht was still unloading at Port Terminal and Great Republic was loading at CN#6. Great Republic is estimated to depart early Monday with iron ore pellets. American Mariner is expected Monday afternoon to unload limestone at CN-Hallett #5.
Superior Entry: Burns Harbor arrived at 10:50 (CST) Sunday morning to load at BNSF; she’s the only vessel in port on the Superior side Sunday night. Burns Harbor is estimated to depart early Monday with iron ore pellets.
Two Harbors-Silver Bay – Gary A Putney
Presque Isle departed Two Harbors on 6/20 at 09:38 for Gary. Walter J. McCarthy Jr. arrived Two Harbors on 6/20 at 11:11. Due Two Harbors on 6/21 is CSL Welland, James R. Barker,and American Integrity. There is no traffic due Northshore Mining on 6/21.
Thunder Bay, ON
Sunday; 15:08 Algoma Equinox departed for Port Cartier. 17:35 Federal Yukina arrived at Keefer Terminal.
Munising, MI
Herbert C. Jackson unloaded coal at the Neenah paper mill Sunday afternoon.
Milwaukee, WI – MKE Marine Reports
Maria G arrived from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, at 15:15 Sunday (06/20). With an assist from G-tug North Dakota, she backed into south slip one, outer harbor, and tied up at the Federal Marine Terminals dock. She brings steel from Gemlick, Turkey.
Northern Lake Huron
Bruce Mines: Saturday; 23:39 Saginaw arrived to load trap rock and departed Sunday at 9:53 for Marysville.
Drummond Island: Sunday; 18:24 Laura L Van Enkevort / Joseph H Thompson arrived to load limestone.
Port Dolomite: Sunday; 4:22 American Mariner departed for Duluth Superior.14:14 Calumet arrived to load limestone.
Calcite: Sunday; 5:17 Olive L Moore / Menominee arrived to load. 7:26 Victory / Maumee departed for Buffington. 7:31 Lee A Tregurtha arrived to load limestone.
Stoneport: Sunday; 16:48 Arthur M Anderson arrived to load limestone.
Alpena: Sunday; 0:30 GL Ostrander arrived to load cement products and departed at 6:55 for Milwaukee. 15:26 The cement carrier Alpena arrived to load.
Goderich, ON – Bruce Douglas
Algoma Intrepid cleared 7.07 am Sunday upbound for Chicago with salt. Algoma Sault arrived at 8.04 am Sunday loading at Compass Minerals. Algoma Compass expected next.
Lake Erie Ports for Sunday – Bill Kloss
Monroe: Undaunted/Pere Marquette 41 arrived at 19:49.
Kingsville: Undaunted/Pere Marquette 41 arrived at 06:15. The tug/barge left at 16:54 for Monroe.
Marblehead: American Courage arrived from Cleveland at 12:33.
Cleveland: Polsteam’s Isadora arrived at the Port at 01:53. She went to dock 24W. American Courage departed at 02:43. Prentiss Brown/St.Marys Challenger arrived at 06:29. After unloading she departed at 20:22 for Toledo.Petite Forte/St.Mary’s Cement II left at 11:45 for Bowmanville. Algoma Buffalo arrived at Cargill at 17:00.
Nanticoke: CSL Tadoussac arrived at Stelco at 05:35, unloaded and departed for Bowmanville at 15:57.Algoma Transport arrived at 11:45. Algocanada and Algosea are at anchor off of Port Dover.
Buffalo, NY – Brian Wroblewski
On the 19th, right in the middle of the airshow, the big articulated tug-barge combination Defiance-Ashtabula from Brevort for Canadian Silica around 2PM. They made their way up to the landing on the City Ship Canal under law enforcement escort through the crowd of boats and spent the rest of the day unloading sand. Later that evening the tugs Anne Maria and Paul Luedtke showed up with a derrick boat and some barges. They came in the South Entrance and docked their derrick on the Union Ship Canal side of Gateway Metroport. Then the tugs moved their barges into the Lackawanna Canal for loading stone. Around 9PM the tug Vermont came down and towed the Defiance-Ashtabula out from Canadian Silica stern first for the lake.
The Mega Yacht Scout arrived at the Erie Basin around 1AM on the 20th. She is absolutely huge and looks like a small cruise ship. This was the largest, deepest draft vessel I’ve ever seen moored inside the basin. Later that morning, the tug-barge combo New York – DS509A arrived from Detroit. They switched their tow around and “notched up” out near Windmill Point and then went to anchor off Lackawanna. They were waiting until evening, after the air show to take on their pilot and head for Marathon. The crew had an excellent view of the show because most of the aircrafts performing that afternoon were turning and passing directly over the top of them, sometimes as low as 500-feet. Around 5:30PM the tug Paul Luedtke departed Lackawanna and passed them out in the lake on her way West. After the show was over at 4PM, the New York gave it another two hours for the boat traffic to clear out and then they headed in. The tug Vermont rode shotgun and helped get them secured at the Marathon pier in Tonawanda around 8:30PM.