The shipping news: Beet pellets to Ireland cap longest oceangoing shipping season in Duluth-Superior port history: 277 days.

"DULUTH — The Canadian-flagged freighter Nordika Desgagnes motored out of the Twin Ports harbor and into Lake Superior and the record book Friday evening as the port of Duluth-Superior’s latest-departing oceangoing ship on record."
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/last-salties-departure-marks-twin-ports-longest-ever-oceangoing-season