The Coast Guard has established new pilotage rates for the 2025 shipping season.
The Coast Guard is setting new pilotage rates for the 2025 shipping season. The Coast Guard estimates that this will result in approximately a 7-percent increase in operating costs compared to the 2024 season.
The Coast Guard is setting the rates shown in table 1.
Table 1 — Current and 2025 Pilotage Rates on the Great Lakes
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Area
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Name
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Final 2024 pilotage rate
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Final 2025 pilotage rate
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District One: Designated
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St. Lawrence River
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$927
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$986
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District One: Undesignated
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Lake Ontario
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$608
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$643
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District Two: Designated
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Navigable waters from Southeast Shoal to Port Huron, MI
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$667
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$753
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District Two: Undesignated
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Lake Erie
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$597
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$576
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District Three: Designated
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St. Marys River
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$836
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$825
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District Three: Undesignated
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Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior
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$430
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$440
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For more information or to view the FR on the Federal Register under Docket Number USCG-2023-0438, call or email Mr. Brian Rogers, Commandant, Office of Waterways and Ocean Policy – Great Lakes Pilotage Division (CG-WWM-2), Coast Guard; telephone 410-360-9260, email Brian.Rogers@uscg.mil.
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