page_title: Canada Steamship Lines
section_title: New Trillium classes
hierarchical_section_title: Canada Steamship Lines / CSL Today / New Trillium classes
caption_attribution_description: English: Upbound out of Lock 2 of the Welland Canal
context_page_description: Canada Steamship Lines is a shipping company with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The business has been operating for well over a century and a half.
context_section_description: In the early 2010s, CSL introduced two new classes of vessels, both named the Trillium class.
  Baie St. Paul, commissioned in 2012, was the first lake freighter Trillium-class ship. 
  The other ships in this fleet, Whitefish Bay, Thunder Bay and Baie Comeau, were commissioned in 2013.
  Rt. Hon. Paul E. Martin, commissioned in 2012, was the first panamax Trillium-class ship.CSL Tecumseh, commissioned in 2013, was CSL's second panamax Trillium-class vessel. CSL Tacoma, also commissioned in 2013, was the third ship in this group.
  The first of two Trillium-class bulk vessels, CSL Welland departed Yangfan Shipyard in early November 2014, and reached Montreal on January 2, 2015. The second one, CSL St-Laurent, passed through the Panama Canal in January 2015.
caption: Thunder Bay upbound out of Lock 2 of the Welland Canal
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