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A ship is docked for unloading at G3’s St. Lawrence River terminal at Trois-Rivieres, Que. (G3.ca)
Markets

St. Lawrence Seaway sees increased tonnage in 2023

The seaway saw the longest scheduled shipping season in history

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Cargo movement through the St. Lawrence Seaway was up by more than 3.4 per cent in 2023 compared to the previous year, with nearly 38 million tonnes of cargo moved through the binational system, according to a joint report from the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLMC) and the United States Great Lakes St. Lawrence Development Corporation (GLS).
File photo of locks on the Welland Canal at Allanburg, Ont. (Jimfeng/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Seaway workers serve strike notice

Waterway would be 'closed to all traffic' in event of strike

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Five Unifor locals representing 361 workers with the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. (SLSMC) have served their 72 hours’ notice of a strike that could shut the waterway to grain and all other traffic just after midnight Sunday at the earliest. Unifor members represented by Locals 4211, 4212 and 4323 in Ontario and Locals 4319
File photo of a storm cloud from the southwestern end of Lake Winnipeg at Matlock, Man. (IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
Crops, Weather

More than half of world’s large lakes drying up, study finds

Gains in Great Lakes, Lake Winnipeg come from runoff, rainfall

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London | Reuters — More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study published on Thursday found. A team of international researchers reported that some of the world’s most important freshwater
The Robin Hood logo still adorns the former flour mill at Port Colborne, Ont. today. (LondonAg.com)
Crops

Lake Erie grain terminal sold to main tenant

Ceres sells export facility to London Ag Commodities

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The former Robin Hood flour mill turned grain export terminal on the Ontario side of Lake Erie is under new ownership by its main user. Minneapolis-based Ceres Global Ag announced Wednesday it has sold the well-known terminal at Port Colborne, Ont., about 30 km west of Buffalo, N.Y., to London Agricultural Commodities (LAC) for US$4
Lake Winnipeg algae blooms can create, under certain conditions, powerful neurotoxins.
Did you know?, News, Other

Lake Winnipeg blooms create neurotoxins

Researchers say the substances have been associated with 
several health conditions

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Manitoba’s largest lake is the host to potentially harmful toxins caused by cyanobacteria, more commonly known as “blue-green algae.” Researchers from the University of British Columbia, working with the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium, were looking for a specific toxin called BMAA that’s been linked with conditions ranging from Alzheimer’s to Lou Gehrig’s disease. “Cyanobacteria blooms
The locks of the Welland Canal, on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
News

A wave of optimism in advance of seaway opening

The Great Lakes shipping pipeline will be opening for the season later this month

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Optimism abounds for the 2017 navigation seasons on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. The seaway will open March 20 followed five days later by the American Soo locks between Lakes Superior and Huron and the 2017 navigation season on the Great Lakes will be fully underway. While the seaway finished down by 3.1
The Soo Locks between Lake Superior and the St. Marys River.
News

Provincial and state leaders float Great Lakes shipping plan

A US$3.8-billion investment would increase capacity and kick-start economic development

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Provinces and states bordering the Great Lakes say there’s a need to boost shipping on the waterway — now they just have to convince the feds on both sides of the border. They’re boosting a US$3.8-billion plan which will require at least 10 years of construction, dredging and regulatory harmonization to implement, much of which
A Canadian Steamship Lines lake freighter entering Duluth Ship Canal at Duluth, Minnesota.
News

Seaway shippers say conditions are good, but business is bad

The ice is clear and the water is high, but business is slow and there are too many ships for the existing cargo flow

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As the 2016 St. Lawrence Seaway season is set to open, shipping conditions are promising but business conditions are worrisome. Unlike other season openers, no thick ice blocks the Great Lakes and water levels are high enough to make mariners smile. Economic headwinds, however, threaten to limit the volume of traffic. Bruce Hodgson, director of

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