The Interlake Steamship Company has released photographs of its new 639-foot River class self-unloading bulker on initial sea rials. Named for Interlake Steamship’s president, the vessel. the M/V Mark W. Barker, has been built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding. The ship is believed to be the first ship for U.S. Great Lakes service built on the Great Lakes since 1983 and is very far from being a repeat of earlier designs.
Freefall! Yesterday crews deployed the freefall lifeboat off our M/V Mark...
Interlake Holding Company has purchased the assets of Pere Marquette Shipping Company and Lake Michigan Car Ferry Company in an acquisition that includes two working Great Lakes vessels, the articulated tug-barge(ATB) Undaunted/Pere Marquette 41 and the S.S. Badger, a historic passenger-and-car ferry that is the the last coal-burning steamship in the United States .
The acquisition signals the creation of a new business entity, Interlake Maritime Services, which will manage the new businesses...
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