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| The American Integrity arrived Duluth Superior for winter layup on January 13, 2010. |
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The cruise ship Clelia II arrives Duluth on July 4th, 2009, on her first of 6 visits to the Twin Ports this summer. |
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| The 17th annual series of River Quest educational cruises started on Tuesday, May 12th. A total of 874 sixth grade students from seven area schools are participating this year – bringing to over 13,000 the total number of students that have benefited from the River Quest program since its inception in 1993. The program was designed to instill in students a strong sense of environmental stewardship, while helping them to better understand industrial, commercial and recreational activities in the St. Louis River estuary. The two-hour boat trips offer 10 different hands-on learning stations, which foster an awareness of river ecosystems and a student's connection to the river and harbor environment. The station operated by Minnesota Sea Grant is seen above. The cruises are hosted by the cruise boat Vista Star. (more) |
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| On Monday, March 30th, the Alpena arrived in Duluth with a cargo of cement for the Lafarge North America cement plant in Superior, arriving just after 3 in the afternoon (above left). She was the first vessel into the Twin Ports in the 2009 shipping season, and the first vessel from beyond the Soo Locks. An hour later, the James R. Barker departed Duluth (above, right) with a cargo of coal for Marquette, Michigan. The season was late in starting because of ice conditions and the slower economy, although the arrival of the Alpena is the earliest she has been here in many years. |
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| This is one of 12 peices of heavy equipment that was discharged from the Jumbo Vision at the Port Terminal. The ship loaded the cargo in Japan. It will next go to an oil sands project in Alberta. Above, working late on Tuesday evening, November 18th, 2008. (more) |
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| The BBC Plata arrived Duluth on August 23rd, 2008 and went to the Port Terminal to discharge a cargo of wind turbine parts from Denmark. That job finished on August 26 and the BBC Plata moved down the berth to make room for the Flinterland. She arrived the following morning at 6:20 and moved beyond the BBC Plata, at berth 2, to tie up at berth 1, ready to begin loading a cargo of wind turbine blades. (more) |
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| The Port Authority sponsored Pride of Baltimore II departed Duluth on Monday morning August 4th, 2008, after a highly successful weekend at the Duluth Maritime Festival. She was one of 3 tall ships here while thousands of visitors toured her and two other tall ships, the Madeline and the US Brig Niagara. |
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| The Marlene Green arrived in port Sunday morning, June 29th, 2008, with 42 wind turbine tower sections, built by General Electric and destined to go by truck from Duluth to wind farms in Minnesota and Iowa. Last November, she came into port with 40 wind turbine base units destined for a wind farm in Mountain Iron. |
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| The BBC Elbe arrived in Duluth on Thursday morning June 19th, 2008, with a cargo of wind turbine parts. Above, she is backing into the slip at the Port Terminal where she began discharging her cargo very soon after arriving. The Great Lakes tug fleet is seen in front of the ship and the lay down area for previous wind turbine equipment is seen at left, waiting to be loaded onto trucks for transport to a wind farm. |
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| The BBC Ontario came into port on June 13th to discharge 11 component sets (minus blades) of Siemens wind turbines loaded in Denmark. Above, a truck from Badger Transport, Inc. is moving three spinners to another part of the Port Terminal to await shipment to Iowa. |
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Keith Johnson and his son Eric created this snow sculpture of the steamer Reserve, the favorite of many boats his father Captain Armand Johnson worked on and captained during his 36 year career at Columbia/Oblebay Norton. Captain Armand Johnson died this past December; the above is a fitting memorial. The boat is located in the front yard, at 4892 Woodridge Drive, just off Stebner Road in Hermantown. (the picture was taken by Captain Tom Mackay (Ret.)) |
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| Above, the BBC Ems stopped for fuel at the Murphy Oil Fuel Dock at the Port Terminal on Saturday, November 24, 2007. With a cargo of 44 wind turbine blades with 22 of them on the weather deck, the ship was getting 800 tons of heavy fuel for the trip to Spain. It was the largest order Murphy has ever had at their Duluth terminal. The fuel will provide the ship with more stability, needed since the blades are very light, made of fiber glass and are hollow. She departed Duluth on Friday night, November 23rd, 2007 after 6 hours getting the fuel. Below, longshoremen and iron workers at Lake Superior Warehousing Company completed loading the BBC Ems with a cargo of 44 wind turbine blades on Friday evening, November 24th. The cargo will be discharged in Spain. |
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| Project cargo was taken off the Jumbo Spirit today (October 26, 2007). Transferred to railcars, these two pieces will be going to a Suncor Energy oil sands extraction project in Alberta. |
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