by import2 | February 18, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Northern Lake Michigan Straits of Mackinac: Thursday; 10:12 USCG Hollyhock arrived from Port Huron to conduct ice operations. 14:40 Algoma Intrepid and Algoma Niagara were underway for Goderich and were escorted by USCG...
by import2 | February 18, 2022 | Boatnerd News
U.S.-flag shipping on the Great Lakes up 16.8 percent in 2021 Cleveland, OH – U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters (lakers) moved 81.8 million tons of cargo in 2021, an increase of 16.8 percent compared to 2020. The 2021 float was less than 1 percent below the fleet’s...
by import2 | February 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
IMPERIAL ST. CLAIR participated in an historic special convoy with DOAN TRANSPORT, which carried caustic soda, led by C.C.G.S. GRIFFON arriving at Thunder Bay, Ontario on February 18, 1977. The journey took one week from Sarnia, Ontario through Lake Superior ice as...
by import2 | February 17, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Northern Lake Michigan Straits of Mackinac: Tuesday; 19:43 USCG Katmai Bay stopped in the Straits of Mackinac. Wednesday; 7:32 USCG Katmai Bay departed for Sault Ste Marie. 9:01 Algoma Sault was underway for Chicago. 9:54...
by import2 | February 17, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
In heavy weather on February 17, 1981, the WITSUPPLY, b.) TRANSTREAM foundered in the Caribbean Sea off Cabo de la Vela, Colombia. She was being towed to the scrap yard at Cartagena, Columbia when she sank. On February 17, 2019, ALGOMA CONVEYOR departed the shipyard...
