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...

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...

St. Lawrence Seaway cargo shipments up 3 percent

On September 4, 2014, the American Great Lakes Port Association (AGLPA) announced that that year-to-date cargo shipments of more than 20 million metric tons moved through the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System for the period March 28 to August 31 – an increase of 3 percent over August 2013....

Visitors Center' Closing Media Advisory

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) announced that public access to its Visitors' Center at the U.S. Eisenhower Lock for the2014 navigation season ends at 6:00 pm on Labor Day, September 1, 2014. More information is available at http://www.greatlakes-seaway.com and at...