A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ... a search and rescue specialist with the Coast Guard in Buffalo. Great Lakes freighters typically are able to navigate surface ...

It happened so quickly that a Canadian freighter ship around 600 feet long got stuck on its route from Buffalo back to Canada. Overall, about 23 percent of the Great Lakes are frozen up to this date.

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 ...