SAULT STE. MARIE — More than 16 net tons of winter road salt arrived early Friday morning at the city’s Carbide Dock, a sign that winter is approaching in the Upper Peninsula.

Around 3 a.m. Sept. 26, the freighter Calumet began unloading the first of three planned shipments. The salt will be hauled to Upper Peninsula road commissions for use in winter road maintenance.

The Carbide Dock, rebuilt over the past few years, now serves both the cruise ship industry and commercial needs such as salt unloading and distribution.

“The Carbide Dock has been a work in progress for a lot of years and now that it is finally finished with the construction, it just makes it ever more important that we can get these loads and more loads of salt. (Not) just one load but multiple,” Harbormaster Kyler Reat

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