MV Edgar B. Speer

MV Edgar B. Speer is a very large diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by Great Lakes Fleet, Inc, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway. This vessel was built in 1980 in two halves by American Ship Building Company, in Lorain and Toledo, Ohio, with the two halves being joined in Lorain.
The ship is long and at the beam. It has a carrying capacity of, has a unloading shuttle boom and is capable of unloading 10,00 NT/hr. The maximum load that the Edgar B. Speer, is cable of carrying is about 74,100 tons. The ship has 20 hatches which are, which open into 5 cargo holds.
Unlike her sister ship Edwin H. Gott, Edgar B. Speer has retained her shuttle boom.This unique unloading system restricts her to transporting iron ore to Conneaut, Ohio and Gary, Indiana. As of 2025 the only other vessel in service with a shuttle boom configuration is the Stewart J. Cort.