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This is a category of American and Canadian shipping companies on the Great Lakes. Pages in category "Great Lakes shipping companies" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Great Lakes Fleet was formed on July 1, 1967, when U.S. Steel consolidated its Great Lakes shipping operations by merging the Pittsburgh Steamship Division and its sister fleet, the Bradley Transportation Company forming the USS Great Lakes Fleet. [2] In 1981, Great Lakes Fleet was spun off into a U.S. Steel-owned subsidiary, Transtar, Inc. [3]
The Interlake Steamship Company is an American freight ship company that operates a fleet on the Great Lakes in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is now part of Interlake Maritime Services . The company is chaired by James R. Barker , with his son, Mark W. Barker, serving as President .
Some shipping companies are building new freighters to ply the waters of the Great Lakes. The following are new freighters in use or will be launched for use in the Great Lakes: Algoma Mariner – built by Chengxi Shipyard of Jiangyin, China, delivered in August 2011 for Algoma Central Corporation. [48] [29]
Dec. 1—MASSENA — The shipping season is winding down for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, and Administrator Adam M. Tindall-Schlicht says the numbers have been ...
The Great Lakes Fleet 1979 35,592 In operation Emperor Canada Canada Steamship Lines: 1911 7,031 Ran aground and sank at Isle Royale on June 4, 1947. Henry B. Smith United States Acme Transit Company 1906 6,631 Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 Henry Steinbrenner United States Kinsman Transit Co. 1901 Sank on May 11, 1953. Hesper United States
GLT is the largest U.S.-flag tugboat company engaged in towing on the Great Lakes. [3] The company is widely referred to as “The Towing Company.” 1, 10 GLT provides services such as local harbor towing, docking and undocking, interport towing of vessels and barges, icebreaking, as well as rescue and assistance to grounded or damaged ships with a fleet of nearly forty tugboats stationed ...
1930s: Company began to manage four docks along the Great Lakes. [5] 1931: Columbia Steamship Company. renamed the Columbia Transportation Company [5] 1939: Company initiated a study of low-grade minerals and established the Reserve Mining Company to develop taconite. [5] 1957: Company adopted the name Oglebay Norton Company and began trading ...