shipping

While training for Grandma's Half Marathon (which has been very difficult with the snow we've gotten so late in the Spring), we park in the Canal and run across the Aerial Lift Bridge and down the Point all the time.  It never occurred to me that there could be potential danger lurking above me, other than from the pigeons.  I'm still planning on using one of our City's icons, but we'll definitel

I've blogged before about the exciting new television show that will include the Duluth / Superior shipping industry, but now we have a preview to share with you.

Back in January, the History Channel was in the Duluth / Superior harbor filming for a new series.  Now the finished product is ready and we can catch in on the History Channel July 19th.

  There will be lots of people in town for various reasons this weekend.  The obvious, Grandma's Marathon.  Then, there's graduation parties and the general tourists that has NO clue how busy it will be in town. Besides visiting our local attractions, Park Point, Enger Tower, the Lake Superior Zoo, Amnicon Falls and Glensheen Mansion, to name a few, people are going to be watching the shipping tra

Our mild winter and weird weather has good and bad affects.  One of the "good", is that our shipping season has opened a week earlier, allowing that commerce to begin building revenue sooner than expected.

This is a sure sign that Spring is here to stay.  The first oceangoing vessel of the 2011 shipping season arrived in the Port of Duluth-Superior this morning. The Cyprus-flagged Federal Leda (Lee-da) sailed beneath the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge at 7:10 a.m. Her arrival marked the first saltwater vessel (“saltie”) into the Twin Ports this year to have transited the Great Lake St. Lawrence Seaway