Octantis ties with its twin, the Viking Polaris, for the largest cruise ship on the Great Lakes. (However, they are several hundred feet smaller than many freighters on the lakes, which can exceed ...

The ship Victory II was christened Monday morning at Navy Pier. It's a smaller, higher-end cruise ship, geared toward adults ...

Early spring on the Great Lakes has historically seen a few major deadly disasters as shipping season kicks off. But the ...

The plan is for the cranes to travel through the Great Lakes and then along the East Coast ... Hartman said at the time the ...

DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping ...

Great Lakes Observing System and others. Marine technician Jason Agnich guides a cable while preparing to deploy a buoy from the research ship Blue Heron on April 11 in Lake Superior.

Roughly 6,000 ships have wrecked on the Great Lakes, with about 1,500 occurring in Michigan waters. The deadliest early spring shipwreck on Lake Erie was the Anthony Wayne in 1850, resulting in up ...