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FreightWaves Classics/ Infrastructure: Blue Water Bridge is a key US-Canada crossing

The Blue Water Bridge. (Photo: ontbluecoast.com)

A major international crossing over the St. Clair River at the southern end of Lake Huron, Blue Water Bridge is located between Port Huron, Michigan and Point Edward, Ontario. When it fully opened to traffic during the fall of 1938, it became one of the fastest links between the Midwest and Ontario as well as the Northeast United States.

The (original) Blue Water Bridge is a cantilever truss bridge. Its total length is 6,178 feet; its main span is 871 feet long. The bridge was built as a joint...

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Pilot Boat News Roundup | July 22 – USA and Russia deliveries, local newbuilding order by UK-based operator

New boats have been delivered to two customers in the US and one in Russia while a UK-based owner places a repeat newbuilding order with a local builder. Russia’s R ..

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Research vessel purchase, fisheries hatchery upgrades covered in Michigan’s 2023 state budget

Fish hatchery infrastructure and maintenance and fisheries survey vessel modernisation efforts will benefit from the Michigan state budget recently approved for fiscal ye ..

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US Army Corps of Engineers awards contract for repairs to New York’s Oswego Harbor breakwater

The US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Buffalo District has awarded a US$4.75 million contract to Michigan-based Dean Marine Excavating for repairs to the Oswego H ..

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US Army Corps of Engineers awards contract to dredge Toledo Harbor, Maumee River

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Buffalo District has awarded a US$4.565 million contract to Michigan-based Ryba Marine Construction Company to conduct dredging of ..

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FreightWaves Classics: First highway welcome center opened in 1935

A sign notes that the state welcome center is 1/4 mile ahead. (Photo: outsider.com)

A travel milestone took place in the southwestern corner of Michigan on this date in 1935. The nation’s first highway welcome center at a state border opened on U.S. Highway 12, south of New Buffalo and just north of the state’s boundary with Indiana.  

The facility was built by the Michigan State Highway Department (which is now the Michigan Department of Transportation). Key speakers during the dedication ceremonies for the welcome center included State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van...

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La DEA detiene al propietario de un camión en Michigan por cargos de drogas y armas

The drug dealer was arrested in handcuffs, drugs money and gun on wooden table in concept about danger and threat of the drug

El propietario de una empresa de camiones con sede en Michigan está en libertad bajo fianza después de que agentes de la DEA lo detuvieran por cargos de posesión de armas y drogas tras allanar su casa y sus negocios la semana pasada.

En la denuncia penal, Zijad Balic, de 35 años, del municipio de Macomb, fue puesto en libertad bajo una fianza no garantizada de 100.000 dólares el viernes, dos días después de ser acusado de posesión con intención de distribuir una sustancia controlada y de uso de...

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DEA arrests Michigan trucking owner on drug, gun charges

The drug dealer was arrested in handcuffs, drugs money and gun on wooden table in concept about danger and threat of the drug

The owner of a Michigan-based trucking company is free on bail after DEA agents arrested him on gun and drug charges after raiding his home and businesses last week.

In the criminal complaint, Zijad Balic, 35, of Macomb Township, was released on $100,000 unsecured bail on Friday, two days after being charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...

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2 truckers from Canadian carrier charged in US drug trafficking cases

Bricks of cocaine are stacked as a person uses a cotton swab to test the drugs.

Two truckers who worked for the same Canadian carrier face federal drug charges in the U.S. after they were arrested five months apart in connection with seizures in Michigan of cocaine and methamphetamine worth millions of dollars, court records show. 

Prabhjot Singh was arrested on March 15 after Michigan State Police officers found 142 kilograms of cocaine during a search at a commercial vehicle inspection area in Jackson County, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District...

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