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CORNWALL, Ontario — Shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway is set to resume at 7 a.m. Monday after being shut down for about a week by a labor strike.

“No one benefits from this strike dragging on,” says Terence Bowles

Some 360 engineers, operators, maintenance workers, supervisors, and administrative staff walked off the job early Sunday morning, shutting down the St. Lawrence Seaway, which enables oceangoing vessels to travel between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.

MONTREAL - Cargo shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway remained flat last year, despite COVID-19’s har...

MONTREAL — Cargo shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway remained flat last year, despite COVID-19’s harsh toll on demand for many products shipped along the waterway. Nearly 38 million tonnes of cargo were shipped last year along the route stretching from the lower St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes, with record shipments of grain offsetting a decline in liquid bulk, dry bulk and iron ore, the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. said.  In total, cargo shipments were down nearly 1.7 per ce...

MONTREAL - Cargo shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway remained flat last year, despite COVID-19’s harsh toll on demand for many products shipped along the wa