Port of Duluth-Superior

Minnesota port ready to handle waterborne international containers

Want to avoid the crowded Southern California ports? Have you considered Minnesota?

Duluth Seaway Port Authority officials have announced that the Clure Public Marine Terminal now can handle steamship-owned international shipping containers transported by vessel, “in an expansion that will augment existing road- and rail-based intermodal container service under the Duluth Cargo Connect banner.” 

The Clure Terminal has been welcoming vessel traffic since it opened in 1958, but over the decades...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/minnesota-port-ready-to-handle-waterborne-international-containers

U.S. Great Lakes-Seaway grain shipments increase amid challenging season

With harvests underway, U.S. grain shipments through the St. Lawrence Seaway saw a bump in September, a positive note during an otherwise difficult 2020 shipping season. U.S. grain shipments (from April 1 to Sept. 30) have reached 1.1 million metric tons, an increase of more than 4% over the same time period a year ago.

“U.S. grain shipments are increasing with the new mid-west soybean harvest being shipped to Europe and North Africa,” Bruce Burrows, president and CEO of the Chamber of Marine...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/u-s-great-lakes-seaway-grain-shipments-increase-amid-challenging-season/

Two ships that didn’t pass in the day

It looks like a slow-motion game of chicken between ships.

But video shows neither blinked, and the Florence Spirit and the MV Alanis collided in the Welland Canal in Ontario, Canada, on Saturday.

Navigational conditions were reported to be normal when the vessels collided at 3:55 p.m. Saturday south of Port Robinson, according to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. (SLSMC).

In audio accompanying the videos provided to FreightWaves by witnesses Jeremy Barton and Alex Stewart, an alarm is...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/vessels-canal-collision-under-investigation

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