By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Two vintage tugboats now docked along the Buttersville Peninsula are preparing to assist with the annual installation of the fish barrier net at Consumers Energy’s Ludington Pumped Storage Plant. The John Henry and Julie Dee, both owned by The King Company of Holland, are currently positioned on Pere Marquette Lake as staging…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief LUDINGTON — The articulated tug-barge combination of the Meredith Ashton and the Robert F. Deegan arrived at the Port of Ludington Thursday evening, docking at the Occidental Chemical Corp. (OxyChem) facility on Pere Marquette Lake. The Meredith Ashton, a 95-foot-long, 32-foot-wide tug owned by Ashton Marine Co. of North Muskegon, was built in 1999 by Thoma-Sea…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief LUDINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency research vessel Lake Guardian departed the Port of Ludington this morning, continuing its annual spring monitoring of the Great Lakes. The vessel arrived in Ludington Monday evening. According to the app Marine Traffic its destination is Detroit. However, the vessel appears to have taken a westerly course across Lake…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief LUDINGTON — The articulated tug-barge (ATB) Undaunted/Pere Marquette 41 set sail for the first time this season Thursday evening out of its home port of Ludington, beginning the 85th season on the Great Lakes for the barge that was once the SS City of Midland 41 carferry. The vessel is owned and operated by Interlake Logistics…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, Canada — A fleet of ships, including three that make visits to local ports, have been sold. Algoma Central Corporation recently acquired Mainstay Maritime, Inc.’s three Canadian operating companies and associated fleet of six Canadian-flagged vessels. Mainstay, formerly Rand Logistics, Inc., operates one of the largest Jones Act-compliant fleets serving the Great Lakes,…
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