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The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
Kenya Ports Authority is an investor in Kenya National Shipping Line, a state corporation of Kenya formed in 1989, currently owned by KPA and three non-Kenyan corporate investos. [ 7 ] In 1989, the government of Kenya brought together the operation and regulation of existing ferry services , including the Likoni Ferry service at Likoni, Mombasa ...
The James J. Versluis is a tugboat operated by the Chicago Water Department. [1] She is 90 feet (27 m) long, and built in 1957. [2] James J. Versluis with the Chicago Skyline on the horizon. She was named after a former director of the Water Department. [3]
C.T.C. No. 1 is a 620-foot-long cargo hauler brought to the south Chicago ports in 1982. With a capacity of 16,300 tons, this ship was used for storage and transfer of cement until its termination in 2009. The ship hasn't moved since its termination and then purchase by the Grand River Navigation Co., Traverse City, MI. [7]
That love affair continued to 1959 when water skiers, games and a diving competition filled the lineup for the city’s first air and water show, which was a celebration for kids in the Chicago ...
The new schedule, posted on the South Shore Line's website, runs 53 trains to and from Chicago. Service from Michigan City to Chicago on express trains is now expected to take 67 minutes.
Coastal trading vessel GRT: 1,365 1,400 DWT Germany: Fisser & van Doornum, Hamburg 463 1953 Dammtor: Coastal trading vessel GRT: 1,338 1,990 DWT Germany: Fisser & van Doornum, Hamburg 1954 5119595 Francisca Sartori: Cargo ship: GRT: 2,588 3,951 DWT Germany: Hamburg-Chicago-Linie 466 1954 Heinrich Lorenz: Coastal trading vessel GRT: 1,123 1,960 ...
The Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) is a complex of natural and artificial waterways extending through much of the Chicago metropolitan area, covering approximately 87 miles altogether. It straddles the Chicago Portage and is the sole navigable inland link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and makes up the northern end of ...