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American and Canadian ports in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System have marked a strong start to the 2021 navigation season with total tonnage up nearly 4 percent, according to the Great Lakes Seaway Partnership representing ports on both sides of the border.
The 2021 season, which opened March 22 with the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, has had 416 vessel transits totaling a little over 4 million metric tons through April, representing a 3.7 percent increase compared to shipments through the same period last year.
Through April, iron ore shipments through the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway reached 703,000 metric tons, nearly a 7% increase compared to shipments of iron ore during the same time in 2020.
WASHINGTON â The recently renamed Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation announced that a new corporate seal has been approved to replace the former Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation seal.
The SLSDC was renamed the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation by Congress as part of the FY 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act. This name change was led by U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur, D-OH, and Senator Sherrod Brown, D-OH to acknowledge the Corporationâs long-standing contributions and importance to the Great Lakes region and its economy.
âThe new GLS corporate seal pays homage to the former SLSDC seal while depicting the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. Great Lakes Seaway System stakeholders will quickly recognize and hopefully appreciate the new design as it becomes prevalent on the Seawayâs websites, publications, signage, and even the new GLS tugboats,â GLS Deputy Administrator Craig H. Middlebrook said.
Ice Breaking Begins On Lake Superior Anticipating Shipping Season
We can expect a ship to come through the canal soon, the Coast Guard is out chopping ice up to make way for the boats.
Boreal says in the next two weeks, the Coast Guard will make their way up to Thunder Bay then to the Apostle Islands, where they will take a couple of days to break the ice, according to the Coast Guard.
The locks of Sault Ste Marie will open on March 25th, so the cutter has to have everything passable by that time so they can make it to their respective ports. Boreal reports that the NOAA says the peak ice level happened in mid-February.