Port Reports – January 5, 2023

Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from January 4, 2023. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net.

Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen
Due to family holiday celebrations and a boatwatching trip at New Year’s, I have not posted reports for Duluth, Superior, or Two Harbors in the past week. A full summary of the action will be included in tomorrow’s post!

Saginaw River, MI – Todd Shorkey
There were a total of 18 commercial vessel passages on the Saginaw River for the month of December 2022, with 10 different docks receiving 22 separate deliveries of product, accounting for split cargos delivered to multiple docks. This is the most deliveries for the month of December since 2006, when there were 27 deliveries made to the Saginaw River. December 2022 had 11 more vessel passages than in December 2021, and the number is higher than the 5-year average of 11, the 10-year average of 9 and the 15-year average for December also at 9 passages.

For the total number of commercial vessel passages for the year-to-date, the number is 191. This number represents an increase of 31 passages based on the total from last year at this point, and the most since 2020 when there were 202 passages. Looking at the long term averages, it is also an increase compared to the 5-year average of 175 passages, 10-year average of 150 passages, and the 15-year average of 153 passages.
There was also a vessel passage on January 2, 2023, a split cargo delivered by the Dorothy Ann/Pathfinder to the Wirt Docks in Bay City and Saginaw, for a grand total of 192 for the season, unless anything else is coming this way…

Lake Erie Ports – Bill Kloss
Monroe, MI: Queen of the Lakes Paul R. Tregurtha arrived with coal for DTE.
Sandusky, OH: Lee A. Tregurtha loaded coal at Norfolk Southern and departed for Zug Island in Detroit.
Cleveland, OH: Departures were Prentiss Brown/St. Marys Challenger for Charlevoix, MI and New York/Double Skin 509A for Detroit. Dorothy Ann/Pathfinder was a late night arrival from Goderich, ON.
Ashtabula, OH: American Mariner loaded 11,000 tons of furnace coke at the Pinney Dock and departed for Algoma Steel at the Soo.
Nanticoke, OH: Algoterra left with petroleum products for Sarnia and Algocanada remains loading at Imperial Oil.

While we do not currently have daily write-ups for the following ports, their respective port authority websites post schedules of vessel traffic that are embedded below. Each schedule takes the form of a miniature webpage within a box. Scroll with your cursor within the box (or slide your finger within the box on a mobile device) to move through the schedule as you would a normal webpage. To move up or down the actual Port Reports page itself, make sure your cursor/finger is outside of the box.

Green Bay, WI – Port of Green Bay
Click on vessel image for voyage info.

Hamilton, ON – Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority
Scroll past AIS map for arrival/departure schedule.