Please send port reports to [email protected] Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen At long last, Walter J. McCarthy Jr. wrapped up a several days’ loading process at CN Dock 6 and departed Duluth for Cleveland at 08:20. The open berth allowed the Joseph L. Block to shift up from her moorings along the dock, getting in position to unload her aggregate cargo into the facility’s receiving hopper. The split load of limestone and dolomite in her holds will eventually find use as a flux in the pelletizing process at Minorca. Across state lines, Burns Harbor departed Superior with…

CACOUNA’s bow was damaged in a collision with the Greek tanker CAPTAIN JOHN on the fog-shrouded St. Lawrence River July 6, 1971. The CACOUNA of 1964, was repaired by replacing her bow with that of her near sistership the SILLERY, which was being scrapped. Later renamed b.) LORNA P and c.) JENNIFER, she foundered 20 miles Northeast of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 1, 1974. Canada Steamship Lines’ ASHCROFT was used to haul ore, grain and coal only on the upper Great Lakes until July 6, 1932, when she was able to enter Lake Ontario through the newly expanded Welland Canal.…

Please send port reports to [email protected] Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Infrequent Twin Ports visitor John J. Boland made a 07:14 arrival in Duluth with limestone and dolomite for CN-Hallett Dock 5. She loaded her cargo over the weekend in Calcite and Cedarville and is due next just across the harbor at SMET to take on petroleum coke after Federal Mayumi. The Mayumi was still at the dock as of Monday night, keeping the Boland waiting at Hallett. Burns Harbor arrived Superior at 09:12 for BNSF Dock 5 in Superior, and Michipicoten is waiting off the piers…

PAUL H. CARNAHAN was launched in 1945, as a.) HONEY HILL, a T2-SE-Al World War II tanker, for U.S. Maritime Commission. July 5, 1991 – Charles Conrad announced he had formed a corporation to purchase the Ludington, Michigan, carferry operation from Michigan-Wisconsin Transportation Company. JUSTIN R. WHITING was launched on 5 July 1874, at Langell’s yard at the mouth of the Pine River in St. Clair, Michigan. Her dimensions were 144 feet X 26 feet 2 inches X 11 feet 6 inches. Although built to be a self-powered steam barge, she was towed as a regular barge during her first…

Port of Monroe, Opportunity Center to receive funding as part of state budget MONROE, MI – The Port of Monroe, and the Opportunity Center at Arthur Lesow Community Center (ALCC) in Monroe will receive nearly $13 million in funding as part of the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2023 state budget approved Friday by the Michigan Legislature. The port will receive $5 million for fiscal year 2023, which will go towards construction of a containerized cargo scanning facility. The Opportunity Center is slated to receive $7.8 million in funding, which will go towards facility improvements and continued programming. “This funding is crucial to an area very significant to…

Please send port reports to [email protected] Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Bright and early Sunday morning in West Duluth, Arthur M. Anderson cast off from CN-Hallett Dock 5 with a load of blast furnace trim destined for Gary at 06:00. At the dock since July 1, the loading process took longer than usual; it appeared that only one set of loader equipment was used as opposed to the usual two. 90 minutes later, the Anderson had made her way up the harbor and departed via the Duluth Ship Canal. CSL Tadoussac wrapped up her load of Keetac…

July 4, 1996 – The veteran Buffalo fireboat EDWARD M. COTTER, built in 1900, was designated a National Historic Landmark by the U. S. National Parks Service. The WILLIS B. BOYER museum ship was opened to the public at Toledo, Ohio in 1987. She was built by Great Lakes Engineering Works (Hull#82) in 1912 as a.) COL. JAMES M. SCHOONMAKER. Renamed b.) WILLIS B. BOYER in 1969 and COL. JAMES M. SCHOONMAKER in 2011. In 1976, the SAM LAUD grounded entering Buffalo, New York. She was dry docked at Lorain, Ohio, for repairs to bottom plates of No. 1, 2…

Corps of Engineers awards $1.068 billion of the New Lock at the Soo Phase 3 contract SAULT STE. MARIE, MI –  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District anticipates Phase 3 construction will start this summer with the $1.068 billion of the New Lock at the Soo Phase 3 contract award July 1, 2022. Kokosing Alberici Traylor, LLC (KAT), a joint venture headquartered in Westerville, Ohio will begin constructing the largest phase, the new lock chamber and rehabilitation of the downstream approach walls. This contract allows the contractor to begin work. With continued funding, the remaining work, valued at $803.95…

Please send port reports to [email protected] Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen A trio of late-night action on Friday evening got underway with the Edgar B. Speer moving for the first time in over two weeks. Her engine repaired after several weeks of issues, the footer was finally able to sail down the harbor and depart via the Superior Entry at 23:15 to break in the new equipment on the lake. She was due next to load at Two Harbors just up the North Shore. As the Speer passed BNSF on her way out, Algoma Central’s Captain Henry…

On this day in 1943, the J. H. HILLMAN JR (Hull#524), the 14th of 16 Maritime-class ships being built for Great Lakes Service, was launched at the Great Lakes Engineering yard at Ashtabula, Ohio. After having the stern of the CANADIAN EXPLORER, ex CABOT of 1965, attached, her forward section sailed as ALGOMA TRANSFER. The JOHN B. AIRD was christened June 3, 1983, at Thunder Bay, Ontario for Algoma Central Marine, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She was scrapped overseas in 2017 as JOHN B. U.S. Steel’s ROGER BLOUGH was moved out of the dry dock at Lorain, Ohio, on June…