by import2 | January 4, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from January 3, 2022. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Editor’s Note: Happy New Year from the entire Port Reports team! Thanks for following along with us in 2022 — we are very excited...
by import2 | January 4, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On January 4, 1978, IRVING S. OLDS was involved in a collision with the steamer ARMCO while convoying in heavy ice in the Livingstone Channel of the lower Detroit River. The OLDS hit a floe of heavy ice, came to a complete stop and the ARMCO, unable to stop, hit the...
by import2 | January 3, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Tug Michigan sinks 26 feet at Port of Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, WI – The towing vessel Michigan sank in the waters of the Port of Milwaukee in the Kinnickinnic River on Monday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard said in a statement that around 11:30 a.m.,...
by import2 | January 3, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Thunder Bay, ON Lee White was loading grain Richardson’s Monday. She should should finish Tuesday. Marquette, MI, Jan. 2 – Art Pickering Marquette Report for January 2nd: Ship traffic in and out of Marquette has been quite busy. Since my last report, the Menominee,...
by import2 | January 3, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
For the second year in a row the tanker GEMINI (steel propeller tanker, 420 foot, 5,853 gross tons, built in 1978, at Orange, Texas) was the first vessel of the year in Manistee, Michigan. She headed to the General Chemical dock to load 8,000 tons of brine for...
