The Great Lakes
Towing Company has two or more harbor tugs stationed in Green Bay.
4-hours
minimum notice for service in Green Bay is required when placing an order for
tug service.
Green
Bay Harbor, at the mouth of the Fox River at the south end of Green Bay service
the cities of Green Bay and De Pere, Wisconsin. The major commodities handled at the port are coal, limestone,
wood pulp, cement, aggregates, and agricultural products.
Marinette, Wisconsin / Menominee, Wisconsin
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Menominee & Marinette with its
tugs from Green Bay.
12-hours minimum
notice for service in Menominee or Marinette is required when placing an order
for tug service.
Marinette,
Wisconsin on the south side, and Menominee, Michigan on the north side, forms a
deep-draft harbor at the mouth of the Menominee River. The harbor is on the west side of Green Bay, about 33 miles southwest of Port des Morts Passage and 17
miles northwest of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. Menominee forms the State boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan
for about 150 miles from the mouth. The
principal commodities handled in the harbor are coal, stone, sand, and salt.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Port Inland with its tugs from Green Bay.
24-hours minimum
notice for service in Port Inland is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Port Inland is a
private harbor of the Inland Lime & Stone CO., built on the lake in front of
the company's plant about 4 miles northeast of Seul Choix Point.
The harbor basin is protected by a breakwater, marked at the outer end by a private light with a fog signal that extends south and west from shore.
Limestone is
shipped from a 900-foot wharf on the northwest side of the basin. The wharf has a deck height of 9 feet and
reported depths of 25 feet alongside.
There is open storage for 200,000 tons of limestone.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides tug service in Sturgeon Bay with its tugs from Green Bay.
12-hours minimum notice for service in Sturgeon Bay is required when placing an order for tug service.
Sturgeon Bay is a city on the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal midway between Lake Michigan and Green Bay. The city is an important repair center, having facilities for repairs to all types of size of craft.
The Sturgeon Bay
Ship Canal provides a navigable connection between Lake Michigan and the South end
of Green Bay. A canal has been cut
from Lake
Michigan across a narrow strip of land to the head
of Sturgeon Bay, and thence a dredged channel leads through Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay. The Lake Michigan
entrance to the canal is about 126 miles northwest of Milwaukee Harbor, across the west of Frankfort, Michigan.
The Great Lakes Towing Company has two or more harbor tugs stationed in Milwaukee.
4-hours minimum
notice for service in Milwaukee is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Milwaukee Harbor
is one of the major ports on the Great Lakes.
The harbor is at the mouth of the Milwaukee River, which flows into
Milwaukee Bay, a broad indentation on the west side of Lake Michigan about 80 miles
north of Chicago Harbor. The harbor
comprises an outer harbor formed by the breakwalls paralleling the shore and an
inner harbor in Milwaukee River, Menominee River, and Kinnickinnic River.
The principal cargoes
handled in the port are general cargo, steel products, coal, cement, and
grain. Freighters and Petroleum Tankers
ply the year round between Milwaukee and other ports on southern Lake Michigan.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides tug service in Kenosha with its tugs from Milwaukee.
6-hours minimum
notice for service in Kenosha is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Kenosha Harbor, 50
miles north of Chicago Harbor at the original mouth of Pike Creek, serves as a
base for commercial fisherman and pleasure craft.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides tug service in Ludington with its tugs from Milwaukee.
20-hours
minimum notice for service in Ludington is required when placing an order for
tug service.
Ludington is in Pere
Marquette Lake, 7.5 miles south of Big Sable Point. The city of Ludington is on the north side of the lake.
With
three deep-draft facilities, Ludington handles stone, sand, limestone,
aggregates, and liquid calcium chloride.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides tug service in Manitowoc with its tugs from Milwaukee.
12-hours minimum
notice for service in Manitowoc is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Manitowoc is a
port city at the mouth of the Manitowoc River, about 75 miles north of Milwaukee Harbor. The principal
cargoes handled in the port are coal, salt, and cement.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides tug service in Racine with its tugs from Milwaukee.
6-hours minimum
notice for service in Racine is required when placing an order for tug service.
Racine Harbor is
at the mouth of Root River, 60 miles north of Chicago Harbor and 21 miles south
of Milwaukee Harbor. The harbor is used
primarily by pleasure craft and fish tugs.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Holland with its tugs from South
Chicago or Burns Harbor.
20-hours minimum notice for service in Holland is required when placing an order for tug service.
Holland Harbor, 63 miles south of Little Sable Point, is formed by Lake Macatawa, which is connected to Lake Michigan at its west end by an improved channel. The lake extends 5 miles east to its head at the mouth of the Macatawa River and has a least width of 1,000 feet near its midlength.
The city of
Holland, Michigan fronts the east shore and much of the south shore of Lake Macatawa. The principal commodities handled at the
port are coal, salt, cement, stone and agricultural chemicals.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company has four or more harbor tugs stationed in South Chicago
3-hours minimum
notice for service in South Chicago is required when placing an order for tug
service.
South Chicago
(Calumet Harbor) is 14 miles northwest of Gary Harbor and about 333 miles by water from the Straits of Mackinac. The harbor is in the south part of the city
of Chicago, Illinois, and comprises an outer harbor protected by breakwalls and
the Calumet River. The city of Chicago,
including Calumet and Chicago
Harbor, is one of the largest inland ports in the
world.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Buffington with its tugs from South
Chicago.
6-hours minimum
notice for service in Buffington is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Buffington Harbor
is a private harbor owned by the Lehigh Portland Cement Company, and is about 3
miles southeast of Indiana Harbor and 4.5 miles northwest of Gary
Harbor.
The harbor is built in the lake in front of the company's plant on bulkheaded
and filled land that extends 2,400 to 2,900 feet beyond the natural
shoreline.
There is open
storage for about 1 ¼ million tons of material, and a retractable conveyor can
load vessels with slag at 1,000 tons per hour.
Limestone, bauxite, cement, clinker, and bulk materials are received,
and slag and miscellaneous bulk materials are shipped.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Indiana Harbor with its tugs from South
Chicago.
6-hours minimum
notice for service in Indiana Harbor is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Indiana Harbor is
an artificial harbor at East Chicago, Indiana, about 3 miles northwest of Buffington
Harbor and 6 miles southeast of South
Chicago (Calumet Harbor).
Indiana Harbor has numerous deep-draft facilities in the outer basin, both sides of Indiana Harbor Canal, and in the branch channels.
The major
commodities handled at Indiana Harbor are iron ore, limestone, general cargo,
salt, cement, liquid bulk, gypsum, potash, sand and gravel.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Waukegan with its tugs from South
Chicago.
12-hours minimum notice
for service in Waukegan is required when placing an order for tug service.
Waukegan is a city
and small commercial harbor on the west side of Lake Michigan 35 miles north of
Chicago
Harbor.
The principal
cargoes handled in the port are bulk cement and gypsum rock.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Chicago Harbor with its tugs from South
Chicago.
6-hours minimum
notice for service in Chicago Harbor is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Chicago Harbor, on
the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, 11 miles north of Calumet Harbor, serves the city of Chicago,
Illinois, and along with South
Chicago (Calumet Harbor), forms one of the largest
inland ports in the world.
While there is some deep-draft traffic in the harbor, barge traffic from the Mississippi River via the Illinois Waterway constitutes the major use of Chicago Harbor. The major commodities handled at the deep-draft facilities in the harbor are general cargo, newsprint, salt, and cement.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company has at least two harbor tugs stationed in Burns Harbor.
4-hours minimum
notice for service in Burns Harbor is required when placing an order for tug
service.
Burns Harbor, 14
miles southwest of Michigan City, is an artificial harbor formed by a breakwall
extending lakeward from the shore and turning east to enclose a harbor basin
and two dredged arms which extend south from the basin into the shoreline.
Burns Harbor has
multiple deep-draft facilities at both the east and west harbor arms. The port receives stone, coals,
miscellaneous bulk materials, steel, general and containerized cargo, slag,
liquid fertilizer, iron ore, and limestone, as well as ships steel and steel
mill products.
St. Joseph, Michigan / Benton Harbor, Michigan
The Great Lakes Towing
Company provides towing service in St. Joseph and Benton Harbor with its tugs
from Burns Harbor or South
Chicago.
12-hours minimum notice for service in St. Joseph and Benton Harbor is required when placing an order for tug service.
The port cities of St. Joseph, Michigan and Benton Harbor, Michigan are on the west and east sides of the St. Joseph River respectively. The St. Joseph River flows into Lake Michigan 22 miles south-southwest of South Haven and 107 miles south of Little Sable Point.
The principal
commodities handled in the harbor are gravel and cement.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Gary with its tugs from South
Chicago or Burns Harbor.
6-hours minimum notice for service in Chicago Harbor is required when placing an order for tug service.
Gary Harbor is a private harbor at the southern extremity of Lake Michigan, about 22 miles southwest of Michigan City and 14 miles southeast of Calumet Harbor entrance. The harbor is entirely artificial and was developed and is owned by United States Steel Group. Gary Harbor receives iron ore, limestone and general cargo.
The Great Lakes
Towing Company provides towing service in Michigan City with its tugs from South
Chicago or Burns Harbor.
12-hours minimum
notice for service in Michigan City is required when placing an order for tug
service.
From the mouth of
the St. Joseph River, the shoreline trends south-southwest thence southwest for
about 35 miles to Michigan City. The
shore in this stretch is a moderate bluff for the first 7 miles, thence a range
of 200 to 400 foot hills for the next 8 miles, and thence low bluffs for the
next 20 miles to Michigan City.
Deep water is
within 0.6 mile of shore. The Donald C.
Cook Nuclear Plant, 20 miles south-southwest of St. Joseph is prominent. A security zone has been established in the
waters of Lake Michigan off the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant.