GREAT LAKES YARD LANDS SELF-UNLOADER
US operator Interlake Steamship Company has provided a boost to industry on the Great Lakes by awarding a contract for a 28,000dwt self-unloading bulk carrier to Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The project marks the first order for a US-built, US-flag Laker since the early 1980s, writes David Tinsley.
US operator Interlake Steamship Company has provided a boost to industry on the Great Lakes by awarding a contract for a 28,000dwt self-unloading bulk carrier to Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The project marks the first order for a US-built, US-flag Laker since the early 1980s, writes David Tinsley.