The Ports of Indiana shipped 13 million tons of cargo last year, the second highest tonnage in its history.

U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At Sault Ste.

Abdullatif Ahmed recalls his journey from Yemen to working on the icy waters of the Great Lakes, where Yemeni sailors shaped the region’s maritime history.

In recent years, the Chicago River itself has undergone a renaissance, from a lifeless industrial waterway into a vibrant ...

The ship was under command of Captain Frederick ... her father discovered a 150-year-old shipwreck on the waters of Lake ...

More than 1,700 ships are estimated to lie at the bottom of Lake Michigan, most still undiscovered. In Wisconsin's part of the lake, around 780 shipwrecks exist, but only 250 have been identified ...

Call 231-723-3587 to book an event. Book a room here. While the ship’s main purpose was hauling railcars across Lake Michigan, it also took passengers. It was a four- to five-hour trip ...

MANISTEE TOWNSHIP, MI – It took almost two decades for this retired steamship, once a Great Lakes railcar ferry, to find its permanent home in Northern Michigan. The S.S. City of Milwaukee ...

Michigan turned 188 on Sunday ... Edmund Fitzgerald in song after the ship sank in November 1975 in Lake Superior. But the ship certainly isn't the only one to founder in the lakes' late-season ...

Update: Efforts to free a lake freighter ship stuck in ice in the Lake Erie ... rescued two people from an ice floe in Saginaw Bay, Michigan. An ice rescue team was able to reach both people ...

and lakes Michigan and Huron. Upbound ships enter the locks from lower end and massive doors are closed. Water flows in through pipes from the Lake Superior side to fill the locks and raise ships ...