When winter descends, traveling the lakes becomes a dangerous proposition for freighters. Ice can trap even the largest ships ...

IF ONE likens big passenger liners to floating resort hotels, then freighters correspond to working dude ranches. All cargo ships may carry up to twelve passengers without a doctor on board, and ...

Horsepower, booming horns and big waves off the Detroit River: For freighter watchers, it doesn't get much better than that. Freighter watching, where people observe and photograph ships crossing ...

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 Thursday to begin freeing ...

(CBS DETROIT) - It turns out three was the lucky number for a Portuguese freighter stuck in the Detroit River; that's how many tugboats it took to free the cargo ship Tuesday afternoon. The "Barbro G" ...

A freighter longer than two football fields and loaded with about 20,000 metric tons of rock salt was freed Wednesday afternoon, several hours after running aground in the Detroit River near the east ...

Ohio hides a cliffside house made from a Great Lakes freighter, with island views and a story that feels almost unreal.