by import2 | July 10, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen With the help of 95-year-old G-tug Missouri, Federal Caribou cast off from Gavilon in Superior at 22:55 Friday night, making her way to the Duluth side of the harbor to depart...
by import2 | July 10, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On this day in 1979, Captain Thomas Small had his license for Master of Steam and Motor Vessel of any gross tonnage renewed at the St. Ignace Coast Guard Station. Captain Small, a retired Pittsburgh Steamship employee and 106 years of age, was the oldest person to be...
by import2 | July 9, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Port of Thunder Bay sees an increase in cargo volume THUNDER BAY, ON – June has shaped up to be much busier than the same time last year with improved cargo volumes in the port of Thunder Bay. Both potash and general cargo shipments were up, while grain volumes...
by import2 | July 9, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen 30 minutes before midnight, Clyde S. VanEnkevort/Erie Trader backed out of BNSF Dock 5 and departed Superior with 35,000 tons of Hibtac pellets for Toledo. CSL Niagara, anchored...
by import2 | July 9, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
WILLIAM R. ROESCH, renamed b.) DAVID Z. NORTON in 1995, loaded her first cargo in 1973, at Superior, Wisconsin where she took on 18,828 tons of iron ore bound for Jones & Laughlin’s Cuyahoga River plant at Cleveland. The BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS and her fleet...