A Keystone Shipping-managed self-discharging bulker is aground off the US state of Michigan.

The 47,300-dwt Roger Blough (built 1972) suffered flooding after the casualty Friday in Lake Superior's Whitefish Bay, the US Coast Guard said.

The agency said Saturday that the flooding was under control and plans to remove the US-flag ship from off a reef have begun. The Coast Guard cutter Mobile Bay was scheduled to arrive at the scene of the accident this evening.

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