Two Coast Guard cutters — the Mackinaw and the Neah Bay — broke ice so other ships could continue moving or reach safe harbor ...
January, it's not long before the Great Lakes' largest ships dock for the season. Here's where to find them until March.
The M/V Herbert C. Jackson made her final trip through the Soo Locks for the 2025/2026 shipping season January 13.
The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...
The 1,004-foot-long American Spirit passed through the locks on Jan. 15, headed for Ohio with iron ore.
During the catastrophic Great Lakes Storm of 1913, SS Henry B. Smith vanished while battling extreme winds and towering waves ...
The American Spirit was scheduled to winter in Toledo when it appeared to become stuck in ice north of the Lake Erie islands.
A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...
The tiny worms, midges and water fleas growing in fish tanks at a university lab represent the invasive organisms that have spread throughout the Great Lakes, often by hitchhiking in the ballast tanks ...
STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- With the arrival of spring, the season for shipping on the Great Lakes typically begins. The event coincides with the opening of the Soo Locks on Lake Superior in Michigan's ...
DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from ...