Great Lakes Shippers Showing Signs of Life After Another Tough Winter

By  Garret Ellison
April 06, 2015 at 10:35 PM

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI -- Shipping on the Great Lakes has groaned back to life after another rough winter, but lingering ice is still hampering traffic in some areas.

Canadian and U.S. Coast Guard cutters spent the weekend assisting a small flotilla of freighters stuck in a 40-mile icepack in Lake Superior's Whitefish Bay, which vessel managers say is jammed-up with ice driven by an east wind.

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