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Two bulk carriers are currently in the sixth boro having come directly from a very salty area in the north of Chile, more than a 1000 miles north of the coastal city of Valparaíso.
One of them is Albatross Island, an ultramax bulker from the huge Pacific Basin fleet.
She was launched in 2010 as Jin Ming.
She made an 18-day voyage from Chile, counting the time transiting the Panama Canal, when last these crew were close to land.
Port Osaka, part of the Port Dragon Bulk fleet within Portline Bulk, is roughly the same size as Albatross Island but much newer, launched in 2019. She made the voyage from Chile in 15 days.
Yes, I love that logo, which I can’t quite decipher.
If you want a hint of the desert from which our road salt comes, click here for Punta Patache.
All photos, WVD.
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