USS Gary Works to Receive More Iron Ore Vessels

Ice coverage on the Great Lakes is beginning to subside with 36.7 percent coverage reported by NOAA  Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory as of April 19.  Ice persists, however, in Lake Superior and the northern sections of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.  Ice continues to clog the locks through Sault Ste. Marie. It is the ice in the northern sections of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior as well as the ice in the locks and along the channel between Lake Superior and Lake Huron which is causing the delays in the iron ore shipments.

US Steel Gary Works will receive ore later this evening as the iron ore carrier American Spirit was only a couple of hours away from Gary, Indiana as of 6:30 PM ET. SMU is aware of a couple of other vessels on their way to Gary, Indiana. The Edgar B. Speer has passed Sault Ste. Marie and should reach Gary later this week. The Edwiin H. Gott is on Lake Nicolet and has an ETA of April 22nd. SMU does not have a complete list of vessels heading toward Gary. We were able to track these vessels on the Marine Traffic website (www.marinetraffic.com).