The U.S. Trade office will this week announce its plan for levying port fees on China-linked ships as part of President Donald Trump's effort to revive domestic shipbuilding and counter China's ...

The waters of the Great Lakes just might look a lot fresher over the next few years. A coalition that promotes the use of soy-based diesel is making waves in the shipping industry that runs on America ...

Great Lakes trade has fueled the Midwest for centuries. Today, experts say its future is key to sustaining U.S. manufacturing, farming and economic security.

Whitefish Point at the Upper Peninsula’s northeastern tip is a notoriously challenging area for ship captains navigating Lake Superior. It’s where they decide whether conditions are a “go” or “no go” ...

While they support bolstering the U.S. shipbuilding industry, officials warned millions of dollars in fees each time a Chinese-built ship stops at a U.S. port would threaten Great Lakes shipping. Seen ...

The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season will kick off four days earlier than expected. That’s because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to open the Soo Locks to shipping traffic on the morning ...

Lake Michigan, north of Muskegon, on February 11, 2024. Typically, in mid-February, this stretch of the beach would be covered in thick ice. For millennia, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway has been ...

U.S. regulators are investigating potential unfair trade practices within pending Canadian regulations governing ballast water management systems of ships in the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes trade.The ...

The Great Lakes shipping season is off to a solid start in 2017, thanks to a mild winter and an upsurge in iron ore exports. The latest figures from the St. Lawrence Seaway indicate that total cargo ...

STRAITS OF MACKINAC, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- For those navigating the Great Lakes it might seem a lot easier than spending weeks on the open ocean. But that doesn't mean the crews are any less vigilant.

One of the Great Lakes' famous locks at Sault Ste. Marie has closed for the season to allow maintenance, but visitors can still see the system's larger lock in action until January. The smaller ...