ALPENA, MI – This Northern Michigan harbor town is expected to welcome the largest cruise ships on the Great Lakes 19 times ...

With the arrival of spring, the season for shipping on the Great Lakes typically begins. The event coincides with the opening ...

A partnership that sprouted from the soybean commodity in Michigan has blossomed into an alliance that has the potential to boost trade on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Great Lakes Sustainable Shipping ...

The Poe Lock will open to marine traffic at 8 a.m. on Friday, March 21. "Opening the Soo Locks on March 21 will provide ...

The Great Lakes shipping season returns this week - and there's more than one way to watch the Soo Locks open for the first time this year. Here's how: ...

On March 6, Watco Railroad Company Holdings, Inc. announced plans to acquire ownership of Great Lakes Central Railroad (GLC), ...

The AuSable River Queen, a paddlewheel boat that provided tours along the AuSable River west of Oscoda, sank in the river ...

has held a steel cutting ceremony for eight of its new liquefied natural gas (LNG)… Fuel choices are among the most direct means that operators can use to manage exposure to shipping’s current ...

In its day, the Western Reserve was an engineering marvel. At 318 feet long, it was one of the first ships on the Great Lakes made entirely of steel. It was built for speed—earning the nickname ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The under-arrest captain of a container ship which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea is Russian, the vessel’s owner has said. Solong ...

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel ...

Though some individual researchers place the number much higher, the official estimate is that slightly more than 6,000 ships lie on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Roughly half of them fell ...