Saginaw River Year-End Report for 2025: Part 3
Tug-barge units were busy on the Saginaw River again during the 2025 season, with four of the top six spots for total number of visits held by tug-barge units. Once again, as has become the norm on the Saginaw River, the Rand Logistics, Inc./Grand River Navigation tug, Olive L. Moore, paired with the self-unloading barge Menominee, once again defended the title of “Workhorse of the Saginaw River”, making more trips to the river in 2025 than any other vessel. The pair logged 34 visits to the Saginaw River this season, 11 more than in 2024. Olive L. Moore/Menominee have held this title 19 out of the past 20 years, logging an incredible 711 visits to the Saginaw River during this time! The next closest was Interlake Steamship Company’s, tug Dorothy Ann, paired with the self-unloading barge Pathfinder who had 17 visits. Rounding out the list of most frequent visitors were American Courage with 15 visits, Samuel de Champlain/Innovation with 12 visits, then Robert S. Pierson and Defiance/Ashtabula both tied with 11 visits to the Saginaw River in 2025.
Tug and barge units accounted for almost half of the deliveries to the Saginaw River in 2025, logging 92 of the 190 commercial vessel passages or 48%.
The fleet leading the way with the most cargo deliveries to the Saginaw River during the 2025 season was far and away Rand Logistics, Inc. Their subsidiaries, Lower Lakes Towing and Grand River Navigation tallied 97 vessel passages, an increase of seven deliveries over 2024, accounting for 51% of all deliveries to the Saginaw River in 2025. They have now been leading the way on the Saginaw River for 18 of the past 19 years. The Interlake Steamship Company/Interlake Logistics Solutions logged the second most visits with 27 trips, two fewer visits than in 2024. Coming in third place was Algoma Central Corp. with 18 trips, Amrize Cement/Andrie, Inc. with 16 trips and McKeil Marine, Limited with 14 visits logged. These top companies accounted for 90% of all deliveries on the Saginaw River in 2025.
Since I started logging vessel passages with the 2005 season, there have been 3,744 commercial vessel deliveries to the Saginaw River during that time.
In a future post, I will be discussing Rand Logistics, the rebranding to Mainstay Maritime and the boats that operate under their umbrella. With tomorrow's post, we will start looking at some of the local stories from the season.
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