This was the world's first self-unloading ship, and it provided the paradigm for the many self-unloading vessels in use today.

As part of the transfer, the ship was converted to be a self-unloading vessel and was renamed Cedarville.

That enabled the use of self-unloading vessels, which essentially operated their own conveyor belt systems to move iron ore off ships.

In 2001, they overtook Asia Pacific Marine Container Lines, also a Canadian shipping company, becoming the world's largest fleet of dry-bulk self-unloading vessels.

The American Steamship Company (ASC) is an American transportation company that operates a fleet of self-unloading vessels in the Great Lakes.

She sailed with Kinsman until 2002 when her main unloading dock in Buffalo, New York, updated its unloading equipment, allowing it to be serviced by newer more common self-unloading vessels.

ASC was hard hit by the Great Depression, but took advantage of the downturn to convert three of its bulk freighters to self-unloading vessels, which would prove to be the way of the future in Great Lakes shipping.