WATERTOWN â The St. Lawrence Seaway System, a series of locks, canals, and channels in the U.S. and Canada that stretches for 2,340 miles, is …
Recent events in the Suez Canal drew worldwide attention to the fact that when a cargo vessel goes sideways in a shipping channel, it can cause big problems.
Similar scenarios are not unheard of much closer to home.
On Dec. 2, the freighter Harvest Spirit ran aground in a Detroit River channel, on the Canadian side, about 19 miles south of Detroit. Harvest Spirit experienced some sort of engine failure and started drifting.
âShe ended up sideways in the Livingstone Channel,â said Eric Peace, spokesman for the Westlake, Ohio-based Lake Carriersâ Association.