Lower‑than‑average Great Lakes water levels are forcing freighters to watch loads even as cruise lines forecast record passenger growth.

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

A German shipping company that owns the Cornelia, a freighter detained for six weeks in Duluth last winter, has been indicted for disposing oil-contaminated waste into the Great Lakes. On Wednesday, ...

The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season will kick off four days earlier than expected. That’s because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to open the Soo Locks to shipping traffic on the morning ...

DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from ...

The locks, which have been closed since January, will reopen and usher in the 2026 shipping season.

ALPENA, MI – Advanced navigational equipment didn’t prevent this ocean-going freighter from colliding with another ship and sinking into Lake Huron in 1959. Liberian-registered Monrovia sank on June ...

The Western Reserve, an all-steel freighter that sank in 1892, has been found in Lake Superior. The 300-foot freighter has become known for the tragic series of events that unfolded after it sank. The ...