Press Release - St. Lawrence Seaway Begins Navigation Season, Celebrates 60th Anniversary

St. Lawrence Seaway Begins Navigation Season, Celebrates 60th Anniversary

Press Release - Infrastructure Investments Prepare Seaway for New Shipping Season

WASHINGTON – In order to prepare for the 2019 shipping season, the U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) has dedicated the winter shutdown season to investing in critical capital investment projects at the Seaway’s U.S. locks.  Since 2009, the SLSDC has invested $152...

Press Release - 2018 Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Economic Impact Study

New Economic Impact Study Finds Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Shipping Supports More Than 237,000 Jobs and Billions in Economic Activity

WASHINGTON – According to a new study, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway navigation system supports more than 237,000 jobs, 147,500 of which are...

2018 Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Economic Impact Study

Media Advisory - SLSDC Announces Port Winners of 2017 Season 'Pacesetter Award'

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation Announces Port Winnters of 2017 Season 'Pacesetter Award'

The U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) today announced that six U.S. ports in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seawway system are receiving the agency's Robert J....

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 - Restriction of Recreational Activities (January 10, 2018)

January 10, 2018 -

RESTRICTION OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

All persons, including ice fisherman, snowmobile and All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) operators, are to refrain from using the cnala in the area between the Eisenhower and Snell Locks due to the possibility of an unstable ice cover...

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...