Port Reports – June 22, 2022

Port Reports – June 22, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Tuesday morning began with three vessels idled in port for repair – Edgar B. Speer, Presque Isle, and Joseph L. Block – perhaps foreshadowing what would be a quiet...
Port Reports – June 21, 2022

Port Reports – June 21, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen At 23:27 Sunday night, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy’s State of Michigan arrived Duluth and tied up at the DECC. This is the first visit of the year for the vessel and her...
Port Reports – June 20, 2022

Port Reports – June 20, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen 6,400 sacks of quartz were inbound Duluth aboard Spliethoff’s Houtmangracht at 03:12 Sunday morning. With the assistance of the tug Missouri, the saltie tied up at Berth 2 of...
Port Reports – June 19, 2022

Port Reports – June 19, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Trifecta! – Joshua Hebeisen As luck would have it, Saturday, June 18 saw three favorite lakers in their namesake ports at the same time: Alpena loading cement at Alpena, Saginaw discharging stone in Saginaw, and Burns...
Port Reports – June 18, 2022

Port Reports – June 18, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Paul R. Tregurtha slipped into Duluth one minute before midnight on Thursday evening, bound for another load of low-sulfur western coal at SMET. Across the bay from the...
Port Reports – June 17, 2022

Port Reports – June 17, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen It was a bad day for Great Lakes Fleet footers in Duluth, with both the 1,000-foot Presque Isle and 1,004-foot Edgar B. Speer in port with mechanical issues. The latter limped...