Grand Haven received its first cargo of the new season last week.
The articulated tug/barge combination Prentiss Brown/St. Marys Conquest of Port City Marine had the honors of being the first commercial traffic in our port for the season. The pair came into port at around 3 p.m. March 18 with a partial load of cement for the St. Marys Cement terminal in Ferrysburg. The pair had departed for Milwaukee to unload the rest by the next morning.
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