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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keith A. Vandenbergh Sault Ste. Marie, Mich...
...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...
...says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale when she sank with...
...most of that time-until seven years ago, in fact-the ice blocked even the biggest ore boats from January to April. The 35-year-old Mac will push 30 miles out into Whitefish and then back down through St. Marys River and the locks of Sault Ste. Marie, clearing the way for downbound ore carriers and for empty ships upbound from the steel mills at Gary, Ind. Each winter the 290-ft. Mac makes "track" not only through the solid heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through...
...Steel feels passionate on the subject, not merely because it accounts for 20 million of the 80 million tons of shipping a year that passes through Sault Ste. Marie but because it insures its own fleet and can set the rates. Other shippers are far less committed to winter navigation because basic ship insurance rates rise prohibitively in the dead of winter...