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Media Advisory - Final Update on Seaway Closing (January 12, 2018)

 

 

January 12, 2018 -

Last evening, January 11, 2018, the binational Montreal-Lake Ontario section of the St. Lawrence Seaway officially closed for the 2017 navigation season. The last remaining commercial ocean vessel in the Seaway System, the downbound (eastbound)...

Media Advisory - Update on Seaway Closing (January 9, 2018)

 

 

January 9, 2018 -

 

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation reports that this morning, all commercial vessels cleared the U.S. locks for the navigation season. As of Sunday night, three of the five vessels waiting to depart the U.S. sector of...

Media Advisory - Update on Seaway Closing (January 6, 2018)

 

 

January 6, 2018 -

 

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) reports that the vessel Federal Biscay has been safely and successfully freed from the U.S. Snell Lock, where it had been immobilized in ice for thepast several days....

Media Advisory - Update on Seaway Closing (January 5, 2018)

 

January 5, 2018 -The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation has been working around the clock since January 1 to dislodge the Federal Biscay from the U.S. Snell lock where it has been immobilized by heavy ice build-up. Work has been underway to melt the ice around the vessel...

Media Advisory - Update on Seaway Closing (January 3, 2018)

January 3, 2018 -

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is currently working to dislodge the Federal Biscay, a Marshall Island flag vessel carrying soybeans, from the U.S. Snell lock. The vessel is not damaged but is immobilized due to the heavy ice build-up on the lock wall as...