Latest Additions
April U.S.-Flag Lakes
Float Little Changed from a Year Ago: Text /
Tabular
Lakes Ore Up 6-Plus Percent in
April: Text /
Tabular
Fast Start
for Lakes Limestone
Coal Dips Slightly in April:
Text / Tabular
U.S.-Flag Lakes Fleet Back to Work, But Ongoing Dredging Crisis Casts Long
Shadow
New Study: The Economic Impacts of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System:
Executive Summary /
Full Report
Map of Great Lakes Ports
List of Cargos Moving Thru Great Lakes Ports
LAKE CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION represents U.S.-flag vessel operators on the Great Lakes. The Association's 17 member companies operate 57 U.S.-flag self-propelled vessels ("lakers") and integrated tug/barge units ranging in length from 494 to 1,013.5 feet. Cargo movement by LCA fleets and other U.S.-flag Lakes operators has topped more than 125 million tons in a year. Iron ore, limestone and coal are the primary commodities carried by LCA members. Other cargos include cement, salt, sand, and grain. The vast majority of cargos carried by U.S.-flag Lakers move between U.S. ports, in what is commonly referred to as the Jones Act trades.
In promoting the common interests of its members and their customers, LCA places special importance on legislative and regulatory matters. To facilitate a broad-based understanding of U.S.-flag shipping on the Great Lakes and its role in the nation's economy, LCA compiles statistical information on the volume of cargo movement, both in U.S.-flag lakers and from major Great Lakes ports both in the United States and Canada.
America can take pride in the U.S.-flag Great Lakes fleet. No other maritime nation in the world has assembled such a modern, productive fleet of self-unloading vessels. The thirteen 1,000-footers flying the U.S. flag on the Lakes are longer than most of grandest ocean liners. So technologically advanced are these vessels that they can discharge 70,000 tons of iron ore or coal in 10 hours or less without any assistance from shoreside personnel or equipment.
Lake Carriers' Association is a proud and founding member of American Maritime Partnership, the Washington, DC-based coalition that promotes the domestic fleet governed by the Jones Act.
To end the dredging crisis on the Great Lakes, LCA has again a founding member of Great Lakes Maritime Task Force and Realize America's Maritime Promise.
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