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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
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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.
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