Residents and visitors to Manitowoc are likely familiar with the concrete tower at the harbor entrance across from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. This marine tower functions as a docking station for ...

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...

Special to Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter USA TODAY NETWORK – WISCONSIN Residents and visitors to Manitowoc are likely familiar with the concrete tower at the harbor entrance across from the ...

Freighter food, mail delivery, and the life of a Great Lakes freighter pilot. In this episode of Great Lakes Now, delivering mail to Great Lakes freighters, a day in the life of a freighter pilot, and ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – The Soo Locks are open. That means ships are moving through all of the Great Lakes, bringing out “boat nerds” for spring ship watching. Whether they’re navigating a narrow ...

Great Lakes freighters and their crews don’t get the day off for holidays. “When sailing the (Great) Lakes, our mariners work every day to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing ...

ABOARD THE WOLVERINE — Gliding imperceptibly across the horizon, the gigantic Great Lakes freighters are dark, silent, massive and imposing. Yet everyone from ship captain down to deck hand will tell ...

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It will be at least another day mired about a mile off shore from Buffalo for the crew of the Great Lakes freighter Manitoulin, which became stuck in ice after leaving the Queen City ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — 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, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Manitoulin, a 663-foot ...

STURGEON BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- They're called the winter fleet, because it's the season when large freighters gather at ports around the Great Lakes for service and maintenance. "I was on the east side ...