Roger Blough tow making slow progress
At 9 a.m. Saturday, the Roger Blough tow was making 4.8 knots in tow of the tugs Meredith Ashton and Candice Elise. Their location was north of East Tawas. This speed gives it a current ETA at the Blue Water Bridges of between 7:15 and 7:30 am Sunday. Destination is Conneaut, Ohio.
Lost Mariners Remembrance Thursday, November 10
DETROIT, MI – The 23rd annual Lost Mariners Remembrance will be held at 6 pm at Dossin Great Lakes Museum, 100 Strand Drive, Belle Isle, Detroit, MI. The event begins with a lantern vigil at the Fitzgerald anchor, followed by the live Honor Guard escort of a memorial wreath to the Detroit River for receipt by an Honor Flotilla of Great Lakes vessels. A performance by Lee Murdock, Great Lakes balladeer, will follow the wreath ceremony. In this year’s historical presentation, scholar and author Mike Nagle will recount the story of the SS Atlantic, a passenger ship headed to New York City from Liverpool, England, but never made it to its final desti nation.
The event will be broadcast online. See https://detroithistorical.org./ for more information.
2 Great Lakes ports get infrastructure grants
WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced more than $703 million to fund 41 projects in 22 states and one territory that will improve port facilities through the Maritime Administration’s Port Infrastructure Development Program.
The funding, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and additional Congressional appropriations, will benefit coastal seaports, Great Lakes ports, and inland river ports.
“So many of the goods we all count on, from appliances to furniture to clothes, move through our nation’s ports on their way to us,” said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. “Using funds from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this year we’re awarding record levels of funding to improve our port infrastructure, strengthen our supply chains, and help cut costs for American families.”
Great Lakes grants include:
Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority ($27,223,711)
Cleveland, Ohio
The project consists of both development phase (planning, permitting, engineering, and design) and construction activities at the Port of Cleveland. It will modernize a 144,000-square-foot warehouse (Warehouse A); expand stormwater collection and treatment infrastructure; construct a modernized maintenance and repowering facility for terminal equipment; and install electric infrastructure to meet the power requirements of ship cold ironing and electrified cargo handling
Port of Green Bay Site Development Project ($10,134,800)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
The project funds the first phase of redevelopment of a former power plant site into a new port terminal. The project includes the following components: engineering services; clearing and clean-up of the existing brownfield site; construction of new dock walls and bulkheads; dredging; placement of fill behind dock wall and bulkheads; construction of stormwater collection and treatment facilities; installation of bollards and crane pads; asphalt resurfacing; new roads and utilities; truck scales; construction of an office building; and repair and extension of a rail spur with installation of three switches.
