President Donald Trump’s 2025 Executive Order 14269 called for the creation of Maritime Prosperity Zones modeled on the 2017 Opportunity Zones in the Tax Cuts and Opportunity Act. Read More
Great Lakes
The Corps of Engineers issued a stop work order July 24 to the team working on the Brandon Road Interbasin Project for reasons that have not been made clear. Read More
Two top administration officials announced a $2-billion investment to build two new military ships at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard as part of President Donald Trump’s order to restore the… Read More
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy toured Ports of Indiana’s Burns Harbor facility June 19, discussing recent expansion projects and how investing in infrastructure investment can help restore… Read More
Lockport Lock, Illinois Waterway River Mile 291.1, fully reopened to navigation May 19 after a temporary closure that began March 31 to complete essential infrastructure repairs and maintenance activities,… Read More
The Detroit Engineer District will open the Poe Lock, part of the Soo Locks, in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., to all marine traffic at 12:01 a.m. March 25, marking the… Read More
The American Great Lakes Ports Association (AGLPA), Ports of Indiana, the Illinois International Port District (IIPD) and Port Milwaukee, in partnership with the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation… Read More
It has been 50 years since the tragic sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. On November 10, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter sank during a storm just… Read More
Members of a Senate panel hoping to help revive the U.S. maritime industry and at the same time challenge China’s adversarial record heard recommendations ranging from passing legislation tracking… Read More
During the annual conference of Inland Rivers Ports & Terminals Inc., held in Milwaukee in October, Seth Lawson of Lawson Marine & Rigging moderated a panel discussion titled “Inland River… Read More
