🚢 **Burns Harbor Sailing Update**
The Burns Harbor is currently en route to Cleveland, USA, heavily laden with iron ore pellets. Projected arrival is on July 19, 2024.
⚙️ **About the Burns Harbor**
This massive diesel-powered Lake freighter is a property of the American Steamship Company. Born in 1980 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Wisconsin, it boasts self-unloading technology. With a length of 1000 feet, width of 105 feet, it can carry up to 80,900 deadweight tons of coal or iron ore.
📜 **Burns Harbor History**
Originally built for Bethlehem Steel, it was named after their steel mill in Burns Harbor, Indiana. Its maiden voyage was on September 28, 1980, to load iron ore in Superior, Wisconsin. The American Steamship Company bought it in 2005.
🛳️ **Unique Features**
Among its fleet mates, Burns Harbor stands out with an extra deck on the aft superstructure.
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