Random Ships 36

How many more folks in the cold first months of 2015 would have slipped on walkways or skidded off roadways had it not been for our annual salt infusion?  Spar Spica is the most recent vessel emptied here.

How many old trucks and cars have a second life in the Caribbean islands because of this trade conducted by Grey Shark?

What kind of petroproducts does Pula transport?

The classic Ellen McAllister escorts her in. . .

as another tanker . . . Arionas heads for sea

guided by Elizabeth McAllister.

Deep Blue–named for this??– lingered in port a few days as

did NS Lotus, here a few weeks ago when this ice drifted beyond the Narrows.  And what did the crews think of the ice drift?

I really have lost track of the number of salt ships that have delivered anti-ice properties to the land sides of the sixth boro. There was at least one between United Prestige–shown here in mid-February–and Spar Spica.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is ecstatic to be in a warmer sixth boro this morning.

For a Caribbean take on a salt pile–production and ship-loading side, see here, here, and here.