⏲️The 2025 Navigation Season officially opens in 1️⃣day 🎉 Today, @SeawayUSDOT reflects back to April 2023 when Viking's 665-ft. OCTANTIS cruise ship transited the U.S. #Seaway# locks. #SeawaySystem# #maritimetransportation# #maritimesafety# https://t.co/JHbS6hKj3p

📣📰In Case You Missed It: St. Lawrence Seaway Begins 67th Navigation Season🎉🚢 🔗https://t.co/E6YsMJAY8z 📸GLS Deputy Administrator Anthony Fisher (far left) and SLSMC President/CEO Jim Athanasiou (far right), extended a special welcome to Chief Engineer Vladislav Kardach (middle left) and Captain Keith Bromley (middle right) of the Articulated Tug and Barge Everlast and Norman McLeod, the ceremonial opening vessel. Opening Ceremony of the St. Lawrence Seaway’s 2025 navigation season on March 25, 2025, in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Photo credit: The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation #SeawayOpening2025# #MaritimeTransportation# #MaritimeSafety#

🎉With the start of the new navigation season only 1️⃣ day away, @SeawayUSDOT looks back at unique transits through the U.S. Locks. 📸In 2021, the Tug and Tow, SARA DANN and “Big Blue” crane, with the @USNavy's gantry crane entering Dwight D. Eisenhower Lock. The 170-ton crane (lifting capacity at 65’) assembly, nicknamed “Big Blue”, weighed 2.7 million pounds and extending 221’ in height with the boom fully extended. #Seaway# #maritimetransportation# #maritimesafety#

Worn-out, uninsured tankers full of Russian oil sail through the North Sea several times a day. With these boats, Russia is evading sanctions, funding the war in Ukraine and threatening maritime safety. Story by @MoneyInPolitics https://t.co/UFbtSEbEWY