Busier and busier days in our port.

The tanker Arctic Blizzard departed Nustar 's outside berth on May 9th about 1430h

and a short time later the Americas Spirit was brought in and loaded with crude.

 

Next in after the Americas Spirits departure was the DS Warrior with another load of crude oil.

 

Meanwhile further up the Strait at the Martin Marietta loading dock the Rt. Hon .Paul E. Martin was brought in of the Alice Oldendorff and partially loaded with aggregates before being sent to anchorage to allow the Alice to be loaded on the 15th

A partial load of gypsum was unloaded at the Superport Dock in Mulgrave thru the early morning hours of May 14th.When about half unloaded APA pilot Scott MacDonald moved the vessel over to the Cabot Gypsum dock to finish the unloading .
                                                                  

 

At the same time the Atlantic Huron was unloading at Cabot Gypsum the European Spirit was at Nustar discharging its cargo of crude at Nustar.

 

On the evening of May 14th Nustar's David Smith outlined to the Strait Area Chamber of Commerce's AGM the good news of more work at the facility and the hopes of seeing the proposed crude oil pipeline being extended to Point Tupper thus allowing Alberta crude to be exported from the Nustar facility in Point Tupper. An event  such as that would certainly help in all employment sectors in our area and further utilize our deep-water port to its full potential.Fingers are crossed.

After the European Spirit departed the Teatralny Bridge

occupied the outside berth at Nustar  and departed shortly after 1300h on the 16th of May

It was last in our area back in February of 2012 and was berthed at the Nustar inside dock.
At the same time the Teatralny Bridge was departing the Master and some of the crew of the Baltic Sapphire went by launch to Port Hawkesbury for some shore time.

                                                            

The coast guard buoy tender Sir William Alexander was also busy picking up buoys in Port Hastings that were lifted through the winter and placed at the south wall on the approaches to Canso Lock

 

 Our typically foggy spring weather greeted the cargo vessel Santiago Pearl which came in on the 18th of May shortly after 1400h.

 The Santiago Pearl departed the quarry dock after 1300h on the 20th and was replaced by the Bernhard Oldendorff .

Also returning to our area for a quick visit was the tug Evans McKeil .She left Mulgrave and headed upriver with the recently reconfigured barge Labrador Spirit.

Expected in at Nustar on the 24th are the tankers Algocanada  and the Australian Spirit and the Alice Oldendorff  is coming back in to the quarry to load aggregates.

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