The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System mashup tracks vessels navigating Great Lakes waterways.
The 76-foot Federal Kushiro docked at Cross Over Island last Thursday evening after traveling northeast on the St. Lawrence River for three hours.
The Federal Kushiro wasn’t alone; there were more than 20 ships on the St. Lawrence River that evening.
How can you tell? A mashup from the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System lets users track vessels navigating Great Lakes waterways in real time.
Click on show all vessels to see a list of ships in transit. The details are straightforward, but the acronyms can be a bit confusing. Here’s a list.
The interactive map also displays the region’s locks and ports. Click on the dots to get information on each port’s harbor master and web address.
The mashup focuses mostly on ships traveling through the various lock systems on Lake Huron, Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River.
Both the United States and Canada manage the 2,300-mile seaway system. Depending on ice conditions, navigation season starts in late March and extends until late December, according to its website.
Also – will be puttin link on Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper web site
This is great – when many of us look at the ships we have no information – it will be more interesting now to see the ships coming into the Toledo port
Thanks for the information
This comment is regarding the Detroit Free Press article about cormorant predation on fish plants that was listed in the Great Links. “The more things change, the more they remain the same”, since this problem has existed for decades and Fisheries Div. has steadfastly refused to change their policies. The typical response, “oh this was a mistake that was not anticipated”, is the typical BS that flows from Lansing. The loss of those expensive fish to cormorants is of no concern to DNRE brass because they still count as fish planted, and it is all about numbers in their planting reports.