by import2 | October 20, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Great Lakes shipping cargo down 5.63% this year Great Lakes shipping is down 5.63% so far this year, but a strong September brought the total closer to its 2021 level. Total cargo on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway totaled 23.36 million tons through the...
by import2 | October 20, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Marquette, MI – Oggdo Bogdo After a multi day wait for gales to lessen on Lake Superior, ships are finally starting to leave the ‘parking lot’ outside the St. Mary’s River and head upbound. That includes the Lee A....
by import2 | October 20, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On this day in 1916, the whaleback JAMES B. COLGATE sank off Long Point in Lake Erie with a loss of 26. The lone survivor was Captain Walter J. Grashaw who was picked up two days after the sinking. Captain Grashaw had sailed as First Mate on the COLGATE for ten years...
by import2 | October 19, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Duluth-Superior is starting to clear out following several days of weather-induced confusion and delay. After sitting for a day with 68,000 tons of coal in her holds, American...
by import2 | October 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE of 1908, had the honor on October 19, 1912, of being the first vessel to navigate the opening of the Livingstone Channel named after the man who helped conceive the idea of a separate down bound channel on the east side of Bob-Lo Island in the...
