FreighterLog The record of Great Lakes shipping

Archive: January 2024 to December 2025, 28,207 passages. Seaway transits checked hourly. Last checked 2026-09-23 18:00 UTC — 14:00 EDT. NOAA publishes in quarterly batches, and the archive currently runs nine months behind.

Archive to December 2025 · Seaway checked 2026-09-23 18:00 UTC — 14:00 EDT

Not observed

Fleet status

20 vessels on the fleet rosters did not show up in the month of AIS the FreighterLog roster was built from. Some are in long-term lay-up. Some were simply elsewhere. The honest label is not observed, and that is the label used here.

Read this list carefully. This list holds boats on the fleet rosters with no AIS match in the single month used to build the FreighterLog roster. Most are in long-term lay-up or were simply off the lakes that month. It is a fact about that month, not about where a vessel is today.

A vessel appearing below is not a statement that she is laid up today, scrapped, or out of service. It is a statement about one month of one dataset. Anyone who needs a current status should check with the operator, or with the BoatNerd community, who track lay-ups properly.

Not observed, by operator

Algoma Central

Vessel Hull type Flag
Algoluna Tanker Canada
Algoma Endeavour Self-unloader Canada
Algoscotia Tanker Canada
Michipicoten Self-unloader Canada
Tim S. Dool Gearless bulker Canada
Valo Self-unloader Canada

Great Lakes Fleet

Vessel Hull type Flag
Arthur M. Anderson Self-unloader United States
Cason J. Callaway Self-unloader United States
Philip R. Clarke Self-unloader United States
Presque Isle Tug/barge unit United States

Canada Steamship Lines

Vessel Hull type Flag
Ferbec Gearless bulker Canada
Nukumi Self-unloader Canada
Tamarack cement Canada

Port City Marine Services

Vessel Hull type Flag
Commander Tug/barge unit United States
St. Marys Challenger cement United States
St. Marys Conquest cement United States

The Interlake Steamship Company

Vessel Hull type Flag
Hon. James L. Oberstar Self-unloader United States
John Sherwin Self-unloader United States

Central Marine Logistics

Vessel Hull type Flag
Edward L. Ryerson Gearless bulker United States

Inland Lakes Management

Vessel Hull type Flag
Alpena cement United States

No passage pages exist for these hulls: with no AIS observation in the sample month there is nothing to record. If one of them reappears in a future archive refresh, a page appears with her.

How this list is produced

The FreighterLog roster is derived empirically: a month of public AIS tracks is filtered to the Great Lakes, aggregated by vessel, and joined to hand-curated operator rosters. Any hull on those rosters with no matching AIS track in that month falls out onto this page. The list refreshes whenever the roster is rebuilt from a newer archive month; the archive currently covers January 2024 to December 2025.