The Soo Locks, which allow ships to pass safely from Lake Superior to Lake Huron, are set to open after their annual 10-week ...

Winter maintenance at the Soo Locks is wrapping up as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepares to mark the start of the 2026 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 ...

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 ...

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

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It will be at least another day mired about a mile off shore from Buffalo for the crew of the Great Lakes freighter Manitoulin, which became stuck in ice after leaving the Queen City ...

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 ...

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 ...