LCTC

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.

Bayonne Tower 2

I’m not entirely sure where the land story here starts and stops, but three and a half years ago, I posted this when the tower went up because it intruded into a lot of photos I took.  I took these next two photos in January 2012, right after erection but six months before it went on line.

from the Upper Bay

from Lower Newark Bay

And here are two I took last month.

from right across the KVK

from the Con Hook range

Here’s the news:  the turbine is fritzed and needs repair or replacement after just three years in spite of an expected life span of 20 years!  Here’s a full range of speculation. Of the hundreds of thousands of wind turbines operating in the world, why does this one fritz out?

All photos by Will Van Dorp, with thanks to WS for passing this story along.

 

 

 

 

 

Random Ships 38

Recognize this northbound tanker?

Afrodite.

Another orange PCTC . . . escorted in by Margaret, I think.

Tulane.

Torm Lotte . . .

The Peter Max vessel headed for Florida and back by next weekend?

Breakaway.

Conrad S . . . she of the

whaleback forecastle to lessen greenwater loading?

And another PCTC . . .

Hoegh Inchon escorted in by Margaret again . . . .

All photos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.