2 Lake Michigan car and passenger ferries ready for full seasons wzzm13.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wzzm13.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Great Lakes Winter Commerce Act, bipartisan legislation that will codify the U.S. Coast Guard’s icebreaking mission on the Great Lakes and increase the icebreaking capacity of the Great Lakes fleet. Icebreaking is critical for commerce in the Great Lakes, and increasing icebreaking capacity will help the many businesses and workers that rely on the maritime industry to transport their goods to market and grow our regional economy.
“Inadequate icebreaking capacity in the Great Lakes is costing us thousands of American jobs and millions in business revenue. We must boost our icebreaking capacity in the Great Lakes to keep our maritime commerce moving,”
A piece of legislation seen as of vital importance by the inland waterways industry, the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA) was signed into law Sunday as part of an omnibus spending measure: H.R. 133, an Act making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, providing coronavirus emergency response and relief, and for other purposes.
S.S. Badger car and passenger ferry under new ownership, but mission remains the same
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
The S.S. Badger car ferry was acquired by the Interlake Holding Company in a deal to purchase assets of the Pere Marquette Shipping Company and the Lake Michigan Car Ferry CompanyKen Stevens | MLive.com file
Facebook Share
LUDINGTON, MI The historic S.S. Badger car ferry is under new ownership, but the ship’s mission as a transport from Ludington to Manitowoc, Wisconsin will remain the same.
Interlake Holding Company announced Wednesday, Dec. 30 that it had purchased the assets of the Lake Michigan Carferry Company and the Pere Marquette Shipping Company.
S.S. Badger [Image; Interlake Holding]
Interlake Holding Company has purchased the assets of Pere Marquette Shipping Company and Lake Michigan Car Ferry Company in an acquisition that includes two working Great Lakes vessels, the articulated tug-barge(ATB)
Undaunted/Pere Marquette 41 and the S.S.
Badger, a historic passenger-and-car ferry that is the the last coal-burning steamship in the United States .
The acquisition signals the creation of a new business entity, Interlake Maritime Services, which will manage the new businesses along with The Interlake Steamship Company and its fleet of nine freighters.
“This is an exciting day for us and we are thrilled to be welcoming new employees into our Interlake family, new vessel lines into our Great Lakes operations, and new customers and cargoes into our portfolio of business,” says Mark W. Barker, president of Interlake Holding.