NEW U.S.-BUILT FREIGHTER HITS THE GREAT LAKES
By: Lynda Wheatley, Northern Express
For the first time since 1983, a U.S.-flagged freighter has been constructed on the Great Lakes. Fincatieri Bay Shipbuilding, based in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, built the 639-foot beast for the Great Lakes’ own Interlake Steamship Company, whose roots trace back more than a century, to 1913.
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