The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...

The locks will close until March 25 when the spring shipping season begins. The MacArthur Lock is scheduled to reopen in late ...

The M/V Herbert C. Jackson made her final trip through the Soo Locks for the 2025/2026 shipping season January 13.

Ice on Lake Erie is a familiar sight most winters, but as we've been telling you, an exceptionally cold December brought the ...

For more than 150 years, the Twin Ports have been a critical energy transportation hub in the heart of the country. In the ...

Shipping season is underway on the Great Lakes; and while nearly everyone is familiar with the dangers if "the gales of November come early," sailors know just as well how dangerous early season ...

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 ...

Shippers of taconite from the iron range to the north have until Jan. 15 to get shipments throught the Soo Locks that allow ...

Whitefish Point at the Upper Peninsula’s northeastern tip is a notoriously challenging area for ship captains navigating Lake Superior. It’s where they decide whether conditions are a “go” or “no go” ...