The ship sailed on the North American Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway delivering coal/coke, aggregates, slag, iron ore/oxides, salt, fertilizers, grain products, gypsum, quartzite, or sand.

[1][2] A self-unloading bulk carrier, she is one of the last lake freighters built in the traditional two-superstructure style, with the bridge at the bow.

The ship sails on the North American Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway delivering coal/coke, aggregates, slag, iron ore/oxides, salt, fertilizers, grain products, gypsum, quartzite, or sand.

[4][5] Zilwaukee Dock Manager Jim Cnudde cited Algorail's running aground as an indication that greater efforts should be made to keep the river dredged.

In 2018, Algorail was sold to International Marine Salvage for scrap and towed to Port Colborne, Ontario to be broken up.