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Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen
Twin Ports traffic had terminated by ten o’clock Saturday morning with just a trio of vessels moving through the piers. The first, Wagenborg saltie Reestborg, made port in Duluth around 05:36 with a small fortune of wind turbine components stashed inside of her holds for safekeeping. The cargo originated in Germany and is currently being offloaded at Berth 1, a process that is estimated to take about two or three days. Unlike some of her fleetmates and fellow salties, the Reestborg lacks onboard cranes atop her deck, allowing her to get some much-needed R&R while the Duluth Seaway Port Authority’s Clyde Iron Works gantry cranes do the heavy lifting. Sometimes it pays to be a little ship! An hour after the Reestborg made her appearance in Duluth, Superior saw its first and only activity of the day with American Integrity inbound Allouez Bay for BNSF Dock 5. The footer spent the day taking on 63,000 tons of Keetac pellets that will eventually be tossed in the U.S. Steel furnaces at Gary. Midmorning, Paul R. Tregurtha cast off from SMET fully loaded but made a quick pit stop at the port terminal on departure, tying up for about an hour across from Reestborg before pulling back out around 10:00 and clearing the Duluth Ship Canal at 10:28. Her latest coal cargo is another split load destined for St. Clair and Essexville, in that order. She’ll be back up north soon enough. Federal Frontier remains swinging on the hook outside the harbor with an expected arrival date of Sunday or Monday to load wheat at Riverland Ag.
Marquette, MI – Oggdo Bogdo
September 17 officially ‘Marks’ the first arrival of Interlake’s new vessel Mark W. Barker at Marquette, as she took the place of the Kaye E. Barker at 01:04. To the relief of local boatnerds, the fog lifted overnight to allow for good viewing. Meanwhile, the American Spirit continues its typical long load; fleet mates American Integrity and Burns Harbor may each be able to make it to Superior, take turns loading ore, and make it back to the locks before the Spirit moves again. Nobody said loading a thousand footer at those docks is easy! Looking ahead, the Lee A. Tregurtha will make another appearance in a few days.
A fantastic time lapse by Steve Harris captures the Barker loading process in Marquette. Note how the vessel shifts up and down against the dock facing to position herself beneath the chutes.
The Herbert C. Jackson arrived at 03:11 from Port Dolomite, and departed from Verplank at 10:06, due next at Port Inland. A dry spell at Grand Haven seems to be ending, as the Sam Laud will make an arrival in a day or two, coming from Bruce Mines.
Muskegon, MI – Oggdo Bogdo
Samuel de Champlain and Innovation arrived at 11:59 and departed at 19:41, a typical cement run to Holcim. The duo will travel to Alpena next to load up once again.
Lake Erie Ports – Bill Kloss
Toledo, OH: Clyde S. VanEnkevort/Erie Trader left late Friday night for Detroit.
Marblehead, OH: American Courage arrived at 08:13 to load stone at Holcim.
Sandusky, OH: John J. Boland arrived at 09:02 to load coal at Norfolk Southern.
Cleveland, OH: American Courage left for Marblehead at midnight. Laura L. VanEnkevort/Joseph H. Thompson ran a shuttle to the Cliffs mill then departed at 20:55. Fraserborg departed for Chicago and Lake St. Clair and ABB Vanessa are at the Port docks.
Fairport Harbor, OH: John J. Boland departed for Sandusky at 02:49.
Ashtabula, OH: Manitowoc left for Charlevoix at 14:42.
Erie, PA: Calumet arrived at 09:33. She has stone for Carmeuse.
Nanticoke, ON: Edwin H. Gott arrived at Stelco at 18:12 with ore. Harvest Spirit departed for Monroe at 10:43.
While we do not currently have daily write-ups for the following ports, their respective port authority websites post schedules of vessel traffic that are embedded below. Each schedule takes the form of a miniature webpage within a box – scroll with your cursor within the box (or slide your finger within the box on a mobile device) to move through the schedule as you would a normal webpage. To move up or down the actual Port Reports page itself, make sure your cursor/finger is outside of the box.
Green Bay, WI – Port of Green Bay
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Hamilton, ON – Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority
Scroll past AIS map for arrival/departure schedule.
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- Wee! A crewmember on the Paul R. Tregurtha rides the bosun’s chair down to the dock to aid in tying up the Queen. Paul Scinocca imgae, September 17
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- Federal Frontier in the fog, framed by the Aerial Lift Bridge. Lisa Rich image, September 17
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- Wind power components are hoisted out from the holds of saltie Reestborg. David Schauer image, September 17
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- A busy, yet bright blue hour in Marquette with American Spirit and Mark W. Barker loading ore at Marquette. This scene would have been unimaginable several years ago. Paul Hepner image, September 17
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- Mark W. Barker under the chutes at Marquette for the first time in her young career. Patty White-Kinnumen image, September 17
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- Close-up view of the Barker’s pilothouse at the LS&I dock. Patty White-Kinnumen image, September 17
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- H. Lee White inbound Green Bay with coal from Detroit beneath an orange fall moon. Jon Vandyke image, September 17
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- Algoma Transport almost looks like she is carrying Algosea’s pilothouse on her deck as the two fleetmates meet at Marine City. Don Detloff, September 17
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- Algoma Mariner inbound the Burlington Canal in Hamilton. Neil Pichora image, September 17