Algoma Sault, a Canadian laker, unloads salt at Compass Minerals in Duluth on Sept. 24. Such traffic could halt if pending ...

By David Andreatta A Canadian cargo freighter ... of a Facebook group called “Ship Junkies — Lakes, Locks & Rivers,” which tracks vessels on the Great Lakes for its roughly 82,000 followers ...

If President Donald Trump's threat to tariff Canadian imports by 25% goes forward, 200 years of peaceful and profitable Great Lakes maritime trade will be at risk.

Freighters in the Great Lakes often encounter surface ice ... ship arrived to help free the freighter. The Canadian Coast Guard also had a ship assisting with the effort. The freighter was ...

"These are customers that have cruised all over the world, and they are choosing the Great Lakes," says Stephen Burnett, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to the Coast Guard, which arrived with icebreaking equipment ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Canadian freighter with 17 people on ... a search and rescue specialist with the Coast Guard in Buffalo. Great Lakes freighters typically are able to navigate surface ...