The 665-foot long Viking Octantis, its 350 passengers and 50 crew members, spent most of the day in the Soo. The cruise ship ...

The Chamber of Marine Commerce has announced the recipients of the Champion of the Great Lakes Award for 2025 are Rep. Dusty ...

The J.C. Ames was a powerful towing tug built in Manitowoc in 1881. It had a 41-year career. Now, it's the first shipwreck discovery this season.

Heading up north this summer? Be sure to get a Duluth Passport! You can visit 3 area attractions for the price of 2! Are you even Minnesotan without going up to Duluth for a roadtrip this summer?! We ...

and Michigan to ports throughout the Great Lakes region. The product many of those ships carry is taconite. Taconite is low-grade iron ore that’s mined and processed into pellets. It is the most ...

At Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, in the world’s greatest iron ore and iron & steel working ... iron will be shipped regularly to Great Lakes ports on British ships small enough to go through ...

Great Lakes freighters immediately began traversing between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, hauling iron ore and other bulk commodities ... watch and thrilling ship watchers who can't get enough ...

Hundreds of freighters call on the port of Toledo every year. And that helps create thousands of jobs and generate hundreds of millions in economic impact for our region. So how did 2024 stack up?

Over the last two centuries, more than 70 ships have plunged to their demise on the Great Lakes during November. Some, like the iron ore carrier the Edmund Fitzgerald, went down and took the ...

"It's really unusual to basically be out in the middle of the lake and start taking on water," said Thom Holden, a Great ... ships. Other Rand ship accidents Rand's ships ferry bulk cargo like ...