Fleet Projects News Today

The Mark W. Barker, the first new U.S flagged Great Lakes bulker in almost 40 years, has successfully completed sea trials and will now begin trading throughout the freshwater lakes and river networks with oil-free propeller shaft bearings from Thordon Bearings. Built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding for The Interlake Steamship Company,

Construction is proceeding on the first U.S.-flagged Great Lakes freighter to be built on the Great...