article_snippet.sent: The biggest ice cover on North America’s Great Lakes in decades is backing up important shipping deliveries with 18 freighters currently wedged in the ice, unable to move.
article_snippet.sent: Extraordinary aerial photographs taken above Whitefish Bay on eastern Lake Superior, Ontario, show some of the freighters lined up across a frozen expanse.
article_snippet.sent: some of the freighters are carrying a variety of goods from Canadian grain to US iron and steel but are being hampered by slabs of ice as big as pick-up trucks, it’s been reported.
article_snippet.sent: Stuck in the middle with you: Freighters trapped in ice are shown in this photo on Tuesday near Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior northwest of Sault Ste.
article_snippet.sent: The biggest ice cover on North America’s Great Lakes in decades is backing up important shipping deliveries with 18 freighters currently wedged in heavy ice, unable to move .
article_snippet.sent: Nowhere to go: The James R Barker Lake Freighter is shown trapped in ice in this photo .
article_snippet.sent: The ships desperately need a path cut through the lake by Canadian and US ice breakers, which have been hampered by the extreme conditions.
article_snippet.sent: The ships desperately need a path cut through the lake by Canadian and US ice breakers, which have The ships been hampered by the extreme weather conditions .
article_snippet.sent: One ship, the Kaye E. Barker, tried to make some headway but how much ice put a hole in her side, meaning her had to dock in Waiska Bay and transfer her cargo to another ship.
highlights_snippet.sent: Aerial photographs taken above eastern Lake Superior show the freighters lined up across a frozen expanse .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The ships, carrying raw materials, are being hampered by slabs of ice as big as pick-up trucks, it’s been reported .
  