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The Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is an artificial waterway on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, in East Chicago, Indiana, which connects the Grand Calumet River to Lake Michigan. It consists of two branch canals , the 1.25 miles (2.01 km) Lake George Branch and the 2 miles (3.2 km) long Grand Calumet River Branch which join to form the ...
Project America was the result of the U.S.-Flag Cruise Ship Pilot Project Statute passed by Congress in 1997, designed to do the following: Revitalise the U.S.-flag oceangoing cruise ship fleet; Create more than 5,000 American jobs; Help sustain and modernise the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base; Increase U.S. tax revenues; Boost Hawaii tourism
Cruise ship 121,878 2,850 United States: Celebrity Cruises: 678 2013 9606912 Norwegian Breakaway: Cruise ship 146,600 3,969 United States: Norwegian Cruise Line: 679 2011 9451094 Celebrity Silhouette: Cruise ship 122,210 2,886 United States: Celebrity Cruises: 680 2010 9398888 AIDAblu: Cruise ship 71,304 2,192 Germany: AIDA Cruises: 681 2008 ...
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
C.T.C. No. 1 is a 620-foot-long cargo hauler brought to the south Chicago ports in 1982. With a capacity of 16,300 tons, this ship was used for storage and transfer of cement until its termination in 2009. The ship hasn't moved since its termination and then purchase by the Grand River Navigation Co., Traverse City, MI. [7]
Cruise ships started to exceed ocean liners in size and capacity in the mid-1990s; [2] before then, few were more than 50,000 GT. [3] In the decades since the size of the largest vessels has more than doubled. [4] There have been nine or more new cruise ships added every year since 2001, most of which are 100,000 GT or greater. [5]
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[1] [2] The Merchant Marine Act of 1928 would continue to incentivize and spur the construction of U.S. built ships through government loans, which would lead the International Mercantile Marine Company and along with other U.S. run shipping lines to order new ships up through World War II. [2]