After months of waiting lists and people frantic to get protected against COVID-19, public health workers are now waging a ground game to get Michigan to vaccinate the reluctant and hard-to-reach. Wednesday’s ship clinic illustrates the brutal challenge ahead.
Great Lakes freighter company prepping all 9 ships for 2021 season
Updated Mar 13, 2021;
Posted Mar 13, 2021
FILE - The James R Barker, a 1000-foot freighter, traverses the Muskegon Channel with a coal shipment in 2015. The laker is one of nine that the Interlake Steamship Company is prepping for the 2021 shipping season. (Mischa Lopiano | MLive.com)MLive.com
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The Interlake Steamship Company is prepping its entire fleet of nine freighters for the 2021 shipping season as the Soo Locks prepares to reopen – signaling the start of the season – later this month.
The fact that none of the big lakers are sitting out the season is a good sign for the economy, maritime watchers are saying. The company’s self-unloading bulk carriers haul goods throughout the Great Lakes and beyond.
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First U.S. built Great Lakes bulker since 1983 floated out
Trieste - The first U.S. flagged Great Lakes bulk carrier to be built on the Great Lakes in nearly four decades marked a key point in its construction with its recent float out from the graving dock. Being built for The Interlake Steamship Company at the Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding yard in Wisconsin, the vessel which is named the Mark W. Barker is the first Great Lakes bulk carrier built domestically since 1983
02/01/2021
Trieste - The first U.S. flagged Great Lakes bulk carrier to be built on the Great Lakes in nearly four decades marked a key point in its construction with its recent float out from the graving dock. Being built for The Interlake Steamship Company at the Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding yard in Wisconsin, the vessel which is named the Mark W. Barker is the first Great Lakes bulk carrier built domestically since 1983.
S.S. Badger car and passenger ferry under new ownership, but mission remains the same
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
The S.S. Badger car ferry was acquired by the Interlake Holding Company in a deal to purchase assets of the Pere Marquette Shipping Company and the Lake Michigan Car Ferry CompanyKen Stevens | MLive.com file
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LUDINGTON, MI The historic S.S. Badger car ferry is under new ownership, but the ship’s mission as a transport from Ludington to Manitowoc, Wisconsin will remain the same.
Interlake Holding Company announced Wednesday, Dec. 30 that it had purchased the assets of the Lake Michigan Carferry Company and the Pere Marquette Shipping Company.