CLEVELAND — On Thursday, the Interlake Steamship Company will christen its first new Great Lakes freighter built on the freshwater Lakes in nearly four decades with the introduction of the Interlake Steamship Company's 639-foot vessel named the Mark W. Barker.
Friedman said they're going to be adding new services including the handling of liquid bulk materials important to some local industries. "At the end of the day we have a marine highway here on the lakes that is underutilized," he said."It's going to have a huge impact on the region. To think about it when it loads out of Cleveland with salt and it comes back with ore any of those given times is going to be 2,500 trucks, 2.5 trains, so if you think about every time we come into Cleveland we do it quietly.""But we come in and we drop our cargo in a matter of hours and we're gone...