You know . . . like team mates, collaborators. Let’s start with the heaps and mounds of aggregate left where she docks.

 

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Wait for a few days,

 

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and what? another vessel sidles up to the Lehigh cement operation there,

 

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Enter . . . Spar Three of Spar Shipping, and registered in Bergen, not some obscure tropical port. A young tugster visited this Norwegian port so many years ago… and wanted to live there!

 

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Taken yesterday in the thunderstorm and almost worthless as port documentation, Alice and Spar Three commune before heading out to sea.

I know the city always has construction projects requiring cement, and I know Lehigh isn’t the only cement plant, but might we be in a boom construction period in Brooklyn and Manhattan?

Photos by Will Van Dorp.