The Great Lakes Group

The Great Lakes Towing Company and Great Lakes Shipyard

building our reputation for more than a century… job by job, boat by boat, barge by barge, and tow by tow

The Great Lakes Group is a full-ser­vice marine trans­porta­tion orga­ni­za­tion made up of a “group” of diver­si­fied marine-relat­ed com­pa­nies oper­at­ing on the Great Lakes. The com­pa­nies pro­vide trans­porta­tion, logis­tics, new con­struc­tion, fab­ri­ca­tion, repair, and line­han­dling ser­vices across the Great Lakes.

Hon­esty, Loy­al­ty, and Hard Work are core val­ues of The Great Lakes Group. Our suc­cess is mea­sured based on your suc­cess and your con­fi­dence in us.  The Great Lakes Group’s mis­sion is to con­tin­u­al­ly eval­u­ate and improve the lev­el of qual­i­ty and safe­ty based on your sat­is­fac­tion and how well your needs have been met.

Cel­e­brat­ing 125 years in con­tin­u­ous busi­ness, we sin­cere­ly believe that we have built our rep­u­ta­tion job by job, boat by boat, barge by barge, and tow by tow, and we intend to con­tin­ue to do so.

Where We Are

    Lake Erie

  • Buffalo, NY

  • Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada

  • Erie, PA

  • Conneaut, OH

  • Ashtabula, OH

  • Fairport, OH

  • Cleveland, OH

  • Lorain, OH

  • Huron, OH

  • Sandusky, OH

  • Toledo, OH

  • Monroe, MI

  • Detroit River, Lake St. Clair & St. Clair River

  • Detroit, MI

  • Windsor, Ontario, Canada

  • Port Huron, MI

  • St. Mary' s River

  • Sault Ste Marie, MI

  • Lake Huron

  • Bay City, MI

  • Saginaw, MI

  • Calcite, MI

  • Lake Superior

  • Duluth, MN

  • Superior, WI

  • Two Harbors, MN

  • Ashland, WI

  • Lake Michigan

  • Green Bay, WI

  • Marinette, WI

  • Menoninee, WI

  • Port Inland, MI

  • Sturgeon Bay, WI

  • Milwaukee, WI

  • Kenosha, WI

  • Ludington, MI

  • Manitowoc, WI

  • Racine, WI

  • Holland, MI

  • South Chicago, IL

  • Buffington, IN

  • Indiana Harbor, IN

  • Waukegan, IL

  • Chicago, IL

  • Burns Harbor, IN

  • St Joseph, MI

  • Benton Harbor, MI

  • Michigan City, IN

  • Gary, IN