Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAULT STE. MARIE — The Soo Locks were set to close at midnight Wednesday, bringing the curtain down on the Great Lakes shipping ...

The 1,004-foot-long American Spirit was the last Great Lakes freighter to traverse the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 shipping season on Thursday, Jan. 15, as the facility closes for winter maintenance.

Well past midnight and the planned closing time for the Soo Locks, the American Mariner made passage through the Poe Lock to bring down the curtain on the 2024-25 shipping season on the Upper Great ...

The last ship until March went through the Soo Locks Monday morning. The locks were originally scheduled to close at midnight Monday, but the Defiance Tug/Ashtabula Barge left Duluth, MN late. The ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - An engineering marvel, the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is one of the busiest maritime locking systems in the world. Each year, more than 4,500 vessels use the locks.

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - The last freighter to make it through the Soo Locks before the huge system closed Thursday night for its annual winter maintenance was a 1,004-foot ship that has been a Great ...