Today we focus on the docks that received product during the season. Deliveries were made at a total of 12 docking locations along the banks of the Saginaw River. Some of these dock locations serve more than one product or type of customer. One example of this is the Wirt Dock in Essexville, where in addition to sand and stone cargo, dry fertilizer, such as Potash, is also delivered to the dock and placed in domed storage buildings. The second would be the Port Fisher slip, where aggregate cargo is delivered for Bay Aggregates, and liquid asphalt is offloaded for Bit-Mat Products of Michigan, being placed in their liquid storage tanks. A third would be the Port Fisher Terminals Dock, where foreign saltwater vessels can offload various cargo items such as wind turbine components, industrial machinery, or other bulk cargo, and tug/barge units or tankers can deliver liquid cargo such as calcium chloride for Occidental Chemical.
With this in mind, there were 16 facilities that vessels unloaded product for in 2025, the same as in 2024. The individual dock seeing the most vessel traffic in 2025 was the Port Fisher Terminals/Bay Aggregates Dock in Bay City, with 51 vessel deliveries, one more delivery than during the previous season. The second most deliveries went to the Wirt Stone Dock in Saginaw with 50, two more deliveries than in 2024. They were followed by the Wirt Stone Dock in Bay City with 37 deliveries, the AmRize Cement dock in Essexville with 24 deliveries, with the Wirt Sand & Stone Dock in Essexville and the Burroughs North/GM Dock in Saginaw, tied with 19 cargo deliveries. These top docks accounted for 74% of the total commercial vessel deliveries during 2025. In all, accounting for split cargos, in which a vessel unloaded at two, sometimes three different docks during the same visit, from the 190 vessel arrivals, there were 269 deliveries to the various docks along the Saginaw River. This is 14 fewer actual dock deliveries than during the 2024 season. These numbers also show that there were 74 vessels that arrived with split loads, unloading at more than one dock during a visit.
Breaking down the number of visits to the lower river docks, or docks between the mouth of the Saginaw River and Liberty Bridge, of which there are nine, and the upper river docks, or docks near the Zilwaukee Bridge to the Sixth Street Turning Basin, of which there are seven. There was a total of 152 deliveries to lower river docks, nine fewer deliveries than in 2024, and a total of 122 deliveries where the vessel had to pass through the Bay City draw bridges on their way to the upper river to unload at Saginaw area docks, 5 fewer deliveries than last year.
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