Posted: 03.19.2010

The commercial shipping season is getting
under way early in the Twin Ports.

The Duluth Seaway Port Authority says the season will commence
just after midnight Saturday when the James R. Barker departs from
Superior, Wis., with about 65,000 tons of coal for power plants in
Michigan.

The Soo Locks open at 7 a.m. EDT Sunday. The Army Corps of
Engineers moved up the date by four days because of favorable ice
conditions and demand on the lower Great Lakes for iron ore and
coal. At least six vessels should be waiting in the St. Mary's
River for the locks to let them into Lake Superior.

The port authority expects the Twin Ports' first inbound lake
vessel to arrive Monday or Tuesday, and the first ocean-going
vessel in early to mid-April.
 

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