Port and vessel activity from Saturday, June 3, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net.
Two Harbors, MN – Gary Putney
Oakglen departed Two Harbors at 18:11 for Quebec City. Edwin H. Gott arrived Two Harbors at approx. 18:00 for the shiploader. American Spirit Stopped off Two Harbors to wait on the shiploader.
Lake Erie Ports – Bill Kloss
Monroe, MI: Harvest Spirit departed to Thunder Bay, ON leaving New York/Double Skin 509A as the only boat in port.
Toledo, OH: Departures were Victory/Maumee to Marquette and CSL Niagara to Hamilton, ON. Arrivals were Karen Andrie/Endeavour to Midwest Terminals and Herbert C. Jackson to Ironville.
Marblehead, OH: Dorothy Ann/Pathfinder left with stone for Fairport Harbor.
Cleveland, OH: Departing were American Mariner for a return to Marquette, MI, McKeil Spirit to Windsor, ON, Federal Katsura to Detroit and American Courage to Calcite, MI.
Fairport Harbor, OH: Frontenac is loading at Morton Salt. Defiance/Ashtabula arrived to unload her remaining cargo at Osborne.
Conneaut, OH: Defiance/Ashtabula unloaded a partial stone cargo then departed to Fairport Harbor.
Buffalo, NY – Brian Wroblewski
The 664-foot self-unloader Manitoulin arrived from Toledo with the second half of a split load of Canadian Red Wheat on the afternoon of the 2nd of June. She was towed up to the ADM Standard elevator stern first by the tug Vermont at 14:00.
CSL Laurentien came in the South Entrance at 07:20 on the 3rd and turned up the Outer Harbor. She came to a stop off the CRH cement terminal and then backed up the Lackawanna Canal without tugs. They tied up the ship at the bulk loading apron to take on a load of coal for delivery to Canada.
The Manitoulin was done unloading at the Standard on the morning of the 3rd and departed without tugs around 08:00, bound for Port Colborne to have a pesky problem with the ship’s Main Compass repaired.
From the News Of The Weird department, June 3rd was a strange day on the waterfront. At approximately 11:13 the Hamburg Water Rescue Unit and the Woodlawn Fire Company were dispatched to Woodlawn Beach State Park for five people who were in an inflatable pool that was adrift on Lake Erie. The caller stated they were about 200 feet off shore in the area of the windmills. Marine 1, the rescue boat, arrived ten minutes later at 11:23 after responding from another nearby event while they were already on the water. All five occupants of the Floaty McFloaty pool were rescued without injury and taken to shore.
We do not currently have daily summaries for the following ports, but their respective port authority websites post schedules of vessel traffic that are featured below. Each schedule is a miniature webpage within a box. Scroll with your cursor in 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
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Hamilton, ON – Hamilton–Oshawa Port Authority
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Atlantic Huron departs Allouez Bay with ore from BNSF while Saginaw emerges like a ghost from the fog. Nicholas Stamper image (Superior, WI – June 2)