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Algoma Equinox is a lake freighter and lead ship of her class built for Algoma Central, a Canadian shipping company. The vessel was built to a new design by Nantong Mingde Heavy Industries at their shipyard in Tongzhou, China in 2013. The ship entered service in December 2013, operating in the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway.
The vessel is owned by Algoma Central but operated under charter to Canada Steamship Lines from 1994 to 1997. As Algobay, the bulk carrier was involved in a collision with the lake freighter Montrealais in 1980. In 2009 the vessel was rebuilt in China for service in the Caribbean Sea. The vessel is currently in service.
Algoma Mariner is a Canadian lake freighter delivered to Algoma Central on 31 May 2011. The bulk carrier was the first new Canadian-flagged vessel on the Great Lakes in 25 years. Algoma Mariner is a Seawaymax vessel, designed to carry dry bulk through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes.
Algoma Compass, formerly Roger M. Kyes and Adam E. Cornelius, is a self-unloading bulk carrier built in Toledo, Ohio in 1973 for the American Steamship Company. The bulk carrier carried bulk cargoes throughout the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. The vessel has earned a reputation as a "hard luck" ship, experiencing mechanical failures and ...
Like Algosoo before her, Algoma Sault is named for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, as a tribute to the relationship between Algoma Central and city. [1] She is the third vessel of Algoma Central's fleet to be named after the city. [3] Algoma Sault is the second self-unloading Equinox-class bulk carrier [1] and the seventh ship of the class overall. [6]
Algoma Central ordered two Equinox 650 self-unloaders, named for their 650.9-foot (198.4 m) length, from Uljanik in April 2015. [6] They are identical in most other characteristics to Equinox 740 vessels, particularly the Croatian-built ones with which they share the unloading boom-forward design, although the shorter length gives them a lower cargo capacity, with a deadweight tonnage of ...
Algoma Buffalo, formerly Buffalo, is a diesel-powered lake freighter acquired by Algoma Central Corporation in 2018. This vessel was built in 1978 by Bay Shipbuilding Company at their yard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin for the American Steamship Company and included self-unloading technology.
Algoma Tankers Limited is a subsidiary of Canada's Algoma Central Marine, the country's largest inland shipping company. [1] The firm's fleet has seven vessels, including Algosea, Algonova, Algoma Hansa, AlgoCanada, Algoscotia, and Algoma Dartmouth. [2] Some of the vessels are built to withstand traveling through moderate ice and operate in the ...