by import2 | June 1, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Morning fog and strong winds once again impacted Twin Ports shipping traffic on Tuesday. Waiting out the weather at Midwest Energy with a full load of petroleum coke, Federal...
by import2 | June 1, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 01 June 1903, ISAAC L. ELLWOOD (steel propeller freighter, 478 foot, 5,085 gross tons, built in 1900, at W. Bay City, Michigan) broke the record for ore when she carried a cargo of 8,579 tons out of Duluth harbor. This broke the record held by JOHN SMEATON (steel...
by import2 | May 31, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Duluth welcomes first cruise ship in nearly a decade DULUTH, MN – The City of Duluth welcomed a cruise ship and its passengers to the city’s docks Monday for the first time in nearly 10 years. The Viking Octantis ship brought more than 600 people to port Monday...
by import2 | May 31, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Her horn sounding eerily out on the lake, the towering Viking Octantis slowly emerged from a thick fog in a dramatic entrance to Duluth on Memorial Day morning. Her arrival in...
by import2 | May 31, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
CITY OF SAGINAW 31 cleared Manitowoc in 1973, in tow of the tug HELEN M. MC ALLISTER; this was the first leg of her tow to the cutter’s torch that ended at Castellon, Spain. The wooden barge FANNY NEIL was launched at the Muir, Livingstone & Co. yard in Port...
