NORTH CHANNEL

  • General
    • Vessel Name : NORTH CHANNEL 0
    • Operator : CHAMPION AUTO FERRY, INC. 0
    • Ships Type (ICST) : 329 0
    • Vessel Type : 13 0
    • Construction : A 0
  • Engine
    • Horsepower rating : 330 0
  • Location
    • City : HARSENS ISLAND 0
    • STATE : MI 0
  • Capacity
    • Net Tonnage : 46 0
    • Passenger Capacity : 102 0
  • Size
    • Register length : 74.9 257
    • Regular Breadth : 30.4 257
    • Overall Length : 74.9 257
    • Overall Breadt : 30.4 257
    • Load draft : 7 257
    • Light Draft : 7 257
    • Height : 22.5 257
  • Other
    • Year : 1967 0
    • EQUIP1 : NONE 0
    • Coast Guard Number : 511107 0

CHAMPION AUTO FERRY, INC.

  • Area of Operation : BETWEEN ALGONAC, MI AND HARSENS ISLAND, MI IN THE ST. CLAIR RIVER NORTH OF DETROIT, MI 0
  • Principal Commodity : COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE VEHICLES 0

CHAMPION

  • Type : 13 0
  • Construction : A 0

MIDDLE CHANNEL

  • Type : 13 0
  • Construction : A 0

SOUTH CHANNEL

  • Type : 13 0
  • Construction : A 0

News

By the Numbers: U.S. Inland Waterways Careers

By the Numbers: U.S. Inland Waterways Careers

The U.S. inland waterways don’t just move cargo — they move people into long-term, well-paid careers. At a time when trucking and rail struggle with shortages, turnover, and burnout, inland waterways operators quietly offer something different: a job you can start without experience, a career you can grow into, and a paycheck that gets better every step of the way.

Giant Jack-Up Vessel Newbuild Starts Decom Work for Perenco in North Sea

Giant Jack-Up Vessel Newbuild Starts Decom Work for Perenco in North Sea

Petrodec’s newly constructed heavy lift jack-up vessel, named Obana, has started decommissioning work in the Southern North Sea for Perenco.Obana is working on the decommissioning of the Galahad platform, after which it will move to the Amethyst field for the removal of the C1D, A2D and B1D jackets, expected to be completed and offloaded in the Netherlands later in 2025.

Baltimore: Bulk Carrier Afloat After Explosion

Baltimore: Bulk Carrier Afloat After Explosion

The US Coast Guard and local partners are responding to an explosion aboard the 751-foot Liberia-flagged bulk carrier W-Sapphire in Baltimore Harbor.Responders from Coast Guard Sector Maryland - National Capital Region were dispatched to the area to assist. No injuries have been reported, and the cause of the explosion is under investigation.

Ferry Sinks off Bali, Killing Four as 30 Go Missing

Ferry Sinks off Bali, Killing Four as 30 Go Missing

Four people died, 30 were missing and 31 survived after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near the Indonesian island of Bali, the country's Search and Rescue agency said on Thursday, as rescuers raced to find victims in the rough sea.The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour after leaving East Java province's Banyuwangi port on its way to Bali late on Wednesday, the agency said on Thursday.

Woodside to run North West Shelf LNG Plant to 2070

Woodside to run North West Shelf LNG Plant to 2070

Australia conditionally approved on Wednesday a request by Woodside Energy to extend until 2070 the life of its North West Shelf gas plant, following a six-year review dogged by delays, appeals and backlash from green groups.The facility on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia is the country's oldest and largest liquefied natural gas plant and a key supplier to Asian markets

Satellites Help NOC Track Tidal Change for Safer Port Operations

Satellites Help NOC Track Tidal Change for Safer Port Operations

Scientists at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool have used satellite data to create insight into the Mersey River that will help port operators be smarter about managing complex navigation channels. Through a project focused on Liverpool’s famous river and funded by the UK Space Agency

Pictures: The Moment Solong Hit Stena Immaculate

Pictures: The Moment Solong Hit Stena Immaculate

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published a time line of the collision between the Portugal registered container ship Solong and the US registered oil/chemical tanker Stena Immaculate.The collision resulted in one fatality, 14 nautical miles north-east of Spurn Head at the entrance to the Humber Estuary, England, on March 10, 2025.

One Year Ago Today: U.S. Maritime Industry Delivers in Wake of FSK Bridge Collapse

One Year Ago Today: U.S. Maritime Industry Delivers in Wake of FSK Bridge Collapse

We are at the one-year since the Francis Scott Key (FSK) Bridge collapsed over the Patapsco River’s Fort McHenry Channel in Baltimore, Maryland.  Nearly 100 percent of the wreckage and debris removal was conducted by the Jones Act private sector U.S. maritime industry.  The FSK collapsed at about 1:28 a.m.

All 23 Crew from Stena Immaculate Safe with No Reported Injuries, Crowley Says

All 23 Crew from Stena Immaculate Safe with No Reported Injuries, Crowley Says

Crowley, the manager of oil tanker Stena Immaculate that was struck on its port side by the container ship Solong, causing a blaze, has reported that all 23 members of the ship’s crew are safe and without reported injuries, as it launches spill containment response efforts.On March 10, 2025, while stationary and anchored off the North Sea coast near Hull in the United Kingdom

Court Overturns Approval for Two Massive UK North Sea O&G Fields

Court Overturns Approval for Two Massive UK North Sea O&G Fields

A Scottish court has invalidated Britain's approvals for two major North Sea oil and gas projects, delivering a significant victory to environmental groups and raising uncertainty over future fossil fuel developments in the UK.The Court of Session in Edinburgh found that the government had unlawfully granted approval for Shell's Jackdaw gas field and Equinor's Rosebank oil and gas field by

Bulk Carrier Aground in Philadelphia

Bulk Carrier Aground in Philadelphia

The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to the grounding of the 623-foot bulk carrier Algoma Verity approximately a mile north of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in the Delaware River.At 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay watchstanders received a report from the pilot aboard the Algoma Verity stating the vessel had run aground. No injuries or pollution have been reported.

Medvedev Hurls Accusations at Norwegian Vessel; Photos Suggest Otherwise

Medvedev Hurls Accusations at Norwegian Vessel; Photos Suggest Otherwise

A Norwegian shipping company rejected an accusation from Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, that it refused to rescue sailors from a sinking Russian cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea.Medvedev accused the Norwegian-flagged Oslo Carrier 3 of not coming to the aid of sailors on board the Ursa Major cargo ship