Salt 12

Icy roads are here again.  Well, even if they’re not–not yet– in the downstate area, New Yorkers place a value on being prepared.  You might call that a NY value, but I’m not going any further there.  And more accurately, preparing for the future is a universal value.

And in this season, bulkers arrive with beautiful names like Lake Dahlia and with holds filled with dozens of thousands of tons of “de-icer,” this load being off a desert in Chile.  A previous ship had come from this part of Mexico.

In less than a handful of hours after “all fast,” clamshells start discharging at the rate of 30 tons per scoop.

Two operations happen simultaneously . . . cranes empty the holds and

loaders fill the trucks.

When that ice starts coating the roadways,

you and all the others thousands of drivers have a lot

better chance of staying on track to

your intended destination.  The photo below suggests it’s coming time for another truckster post.

All photos here by Will Van Dorp.

Many thanks to Brian DeForest of Atlantic Salt.