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

A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...

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

While ice is starting to close in on the Great Lakes, the Soo Locks remain open for a few more days. When the season ends.

The lakes' frozen waters are currently impacting commercial traffic between ports across the Great Lakes in places like ...

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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 ...

To date, the Great Lakes as a whole are just shy of 15% ice coverage, up from the 10% average for this time of year.