Massive Ships Navigating Through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway, Transporting Cargo to Various Ports Such As Montreal, Ogdensburg and Oswego
PROMO [MARCUS]: We’ve all seen them – massive ships navigating through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway, transporting cargo to various ports such as Montreal, Ogdensburg and Oswego. They’re huge, majestic, and mysterious. What happens on these ships? What goes on behind the scenes? What does the ship look like inside? What do they transport? What is the crew like? In short, what is it like to live and work on one of these freighters? Tune in to “More to the Story: Life on a Freighter.” OPEN UNDERWRITER: “More to the Story” is brought to you by Advanced Business Systems, proudly serving the central and Northern New York regions since 1991. With over 27 years of service, our offerings have grown from copiers and printers, to an assortment of business technologies. Advanced Business Systems, connecting you with your business technology. Marcus: Many people who live and vacation along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River stop and stare in awe when massive commercial ships pass by. Artists paint and photograph these freighters and lakers, or cargo ships, built for traversing the Great Lakes, and marketers use their likeness to promote the Thousand Islands. But not many people know where they go, what they carry and what it takes to ensure their safe voyage. Fewer can imagine what the crews are like, the work they perform and the lives they live aboard these vessels. I wanted to find out. Hello, I’m Marcus Wolf, and I’m a reporter with the Watertown Daily Times. In July, Watertown Daily Times photographer Daytona Niles, WPBS-TV crew members Tracy DuFlo and Ryan Proven, and I boarded a freighter in the Welland Canal near Niagara Falls, and journeyed with it to Eisenhower Lock in Massena.
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