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The Detroit–Windsor Truck Ferry docked along the American side of the Detroit River. The Detroit–Windsor Truck Ferry was a ferry service that transported trucks across the Detroit River beginning on April 22, 1990. The ferry shut down on September 30, 2023. [1] The service was split between two companies, Detroit–Windsor Truck Ferry ...
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...
Freightliner produces a range of vans, medium-duty trucks, and heavy-duty trucks; [1] under its Freightliner Custom Chassis subsidiary, the company produces bare chassis and cutaway chassis for multiple types of vehicles. The company popularized the use of cabover (COE) semitractors, with the Freightliner Argosy later becoming the final example ...
Detroit-Atlantic Navigation Company of Detroit, MI. MV Jack Dalton, the former Michigan state ferry Vacationland, was used briefly in the summer of 1960 to ship truck trailers in "fishyback" service between Detroit and Cleveland, OH. The venture quickly proved uneconomical and the service was suspended within 90 days of inauguration.
The Mark W. Barker of the Interlake Steamship Company ran aground on Belle Isle in Detroit on Wednesday morning May 17, 2023. ... The 623-foot freighter Barbo G got stuck in late November after it ...
In 1903, the plant owned eighty-five acres (34 ha) along the Detroit River that included 1,400 feet (430 m) of river frontage. [4] The company began with a capital of $1.5 million and a $500,000 bond issue. [5] Within three years of GLEW's formation, Detroit built fifty percent of the tonnage of all ships in the Great Lakes. [3] The GLEW ...
It’s a high bridge," Fiorani told the Detroit Free Press. "It’s the Chesapeake Bay, so it opens up pretty wide there. It’s much bigger than the Detroit River. It opens up to the Atlantic Ocean."
Vacationland was an American double-ended automobile ferry, built by Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Michigan State Highway Department.She was built to operate the route from St. Ignace to Mackinaw City through the Straits of Mackinac year-round, and was equipped with powerful engines and a reinforced hull to break through heavy ice.