Name: Great Lakes shipping traffic and freight rise in 2004
Start: 2004
End: 2004
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004
Kind: Observation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: shippingmaritimetransportationeconomycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The February 2005 issue reported increased Great Lakes shipping in 2004: 3,800 ships were counted on the St. Clair River, up from 2,900, while the Lake Carriers Association reported a 19 percent increase in freight by weight.

Evidence limits

The newspaper repeats a shipwatcher’s count and an association statistic; it does not provide the underlying counting or freight methodology.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 2005, "Shipping Up."
Reports Pete Vanderlinden''s count of 3,800 ships on the St. Clair River in 2004, compared with 2,900 the prior year, and the Lake Carriers Association''s 19-percent increase in freight by weight. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, February 2005, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the shipping report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Great Lakes shipping traffic and freight rise in 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-shipping-increase-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2005, "Shipping Up." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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