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I re-learned an acronym . . . LCTC, or large car and truck carrier. These included the Wallenius Wilhelmsen orange ROROs with names beginning with T, like Topeka, Tortugas . . . and so on. The green ones are HERO type, smaller and more efficient.
She’s 755′ x 106′ and by tomorrow she could be squeezing through the original Panama Canal locks.
I wonder if these bow ports see water in rough seas.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s another LCTC, Torino.
And as to continuing impact of Covid-19 on jobs, here‘s info on an announcement from a few days ago of temporary layoffs of WW employees. I’m wondering if that includes those ILA folks in port who drive the cars and trucks off these ships.
Ooops! It’s later than I thought.
When Cape Moss arrived in the sixth boro the other day, she was 16 days and 10 hours out of Cape Town.
Kirby Moran assisted as she entered the Kills.
Compared with the largest container vessels that come into port here these days, this 2011 ship is modest.
It makes me wonder what goods travel via container between South Africa and the US. She left the next day for Baltimore, and has now departed there as well. Think the trade in goods and services between South Africa and the US is greater than $10 billion? Find your answer here.
All photos, WVD, who wishes everyone health.
Tightrope?
This ULCV shows 17 containers across.
It’s a bit surprising to see a Moran 6000 on starboard bow, also on a “tight rope.”
YM Evolution . . . without counting the rows of containers, does it look less beamy?
It is . . . 15 across. By contrast, CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci, the other day here, carries 20 across.
All photos, WVD.
As coronavirus spasms across the globe, affecting all aspects of public activity, container ship runs has been blanked. But you would not guess so from the string of CMA CGM vessels that came in one sunny day last week. La Traviata rounded the bend just before 1100.
The teu capacity of this 2006-built ship is said to be 8488 containers.
She was so light that the prop wash splashed froth to the surface.
Ten minutes later CMA CGM Thames appeared.
Thames carries 9200 containers, and was built in 2015. I’ve never seen either Thames or La Traviata in the sixth boro, which does not mean they’ve not called here before.
A few hours later, a third CMA CGM vessel arrived . . . Amerigo Vespucci, one I had previously seen.
The 2010 Vespucci has capacity of 13,344 containers. She one of the 1200′ vessels that now regularly call here.
That totals to 31,032 teu container capacity represented by a single fleet transiting inbound in less than a quarter of a day! And to do some math here, that’s about 117 miles of containers stacked end to end, ie., the distance from the Staten Island St. George Terminal to the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
For some perspective, a Korean company will begin operating the largest teu vessels to date . . . 24,000 teu.
So like I said, last week I did not sense that container ship sailings were slowing, which does not mean they are not.
All photos, WVD.
Unrelated: A new word for a wasteful and polluting practice is coming from pandemic . . . they’re called ghost flights . . . Here‘s more on why airlines choose to fly these almost empty planes.
I knew it was coming. VHF chatter alluded to it. AIS showed it. And for going on 10 minutes I’d heard it . . . sound, at intervals of not more than two minutes, a prolonged blast, of which I’d heard no fewer than five . . .
Then in addition to the chest-penetrating blasts, I became aware of a low rpm throbbing. When the bow first appeared, it came with no hint of what followed.
A gray ship on a mild but foggy winter’s day . . . its size seems exaggerated. It was so foggy that Bergen Point was closed to all traffic over a certain tonnage, although waivers could be requested and granted.
The white bridge remained invisible.
It seemed the vessel tiptoed out,
restrained by the Moran tug.
And after she had passed, the stern remained visible as the bow blended into the fog. The fog horn, now oriented away, seemed to have moved much farther than the ship had.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Day in day out . . . and night in night out, port work goes on. Here James D finishes up escorting a gargantuan “flower” ship out.
Sea Eagle stands by with her barge while Dace refuels.
Pearl Coast heads for Caddells,
where Kings Point is getting some work done.
Discovery Coast leaves the Gowanus Bay berth.
Atlantic Coast lighters a salt ship while Lucy waits in the anchorage.
Lyman moves Sea Shuttle southbound while some Bouchard units heads for the KVK.
And completing this installment, it’s Kirby, all finished with another assist.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Update on the calendar voting, i.e., “polling… 1 through 4” you’ve now seen the options for each month, but voting remains open, and I’m still accepting candidates for the December page. And I’m grateful for all the voting so far.
Less than a handful of years back, a buzz could be heard in all the boros about these new ships that were going to arrive. Well, they did and now seem routine.
Antwerpen Express departed the other day.
She and all the other ULCVs are longer than the Chrysler Building, once the first building to exceed 1000′, is tall. The Chrysler is now obscured by all the taller buildings in the distance.
The same morning, the next “flower ULCV” departed. We’ve seen Jasmine, Peony, and Camellia . .. welcome . . .
Sakura!! aka cherry blossom.
The Moran 6000s arelarge tugboats, but here Jonathan C barely extends upward of the bottom paint.
Yesterday I drove past a trucking company yard with lots of trailers. Compared with the “trailer boxes” you see here, that trucking yard was tiny.
“O ship!!” indeed!
And the story does not end here; later Sunday afternoon–the day I took these photos–another ULCV YM Warmth arrived, but I was tied up and couldn’t run out to get a photo. O ship!!!
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Seen from this angle, Houston Star, 817′ x 144′, is a wide-bodied petroleum carrier, recently
assisted in with
Kirby Moran on her port side. I was having difficulty finding more info about the tanker until, using her IMO number, I stumbled onto her previous name. Any guesses?
This, I gather, is an ice breaking bow.
All photos and investigations by Will Van Dorp, who was surprised to learn that Houston Star was once named for the Egyptian goddess, Isis.
And here’s an interesting cable-laying vessel that came into the sixth boro this morning . . . while I was tied up. It’s a poor photo of Decisive, but if you out there got some better ones, I’d love to hear from you.
Life gets lived in a linear fashion, but that’s not how it’s processed. It seems the longer we live, the more chaotic we want processing to be.
Kirby and Margaret assisted this ship into the pier this morning.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’ll be processing regularly starting tomorrow, or so I hope.
Let’s start with Alice Oldendorff, inbound with a hold full of Nova Scotia stone and about to turn to starboard on her (almost) final approach to Brooklyn. Alice and I have a long history.
YM Wind makes the final approach her into Global Terminals, her first call at sixth boro docks. In contrast above, Alice has already made hundreds of calls here, always transporting aggregates. Visible assisting Wind are Alex McAllister and Ava M. McAllister.
E. R. Montecito is a large ship, but containers are stacked 17 across, versus 20 across for Wind above.
Undine here takes on bunkers and other supplies. The small black/red/white vessel long her stern is Twin Tube, the venerable 1951 harbor supply vessel. In dry dock in the distance it’s USNS Sisler.
MOL Emissary travels the last few miles before Port Elizabeth.
Uniquely named tanker Forties waits in the Stapleton anchorage.
COSCO Vietnam enters the Kills and passes Houston at the dock.
Since Kriti Amber is Greek-flagged, I’m guessing that’s a variation on “Crete,” but that only conjecture.
QM2 takes on fuel while transferring passengers on the port side.
And let’s call it a day with Unique Explorer.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who considers himself fortunate to live in this large port.
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