Tanker traffics certainly up...

The Straits' been busy of late with a string of crude and gasoline tankers coming and going.Both inside and outside terminals at Nustar have been hosting various visitors loading and discharging cargo.
   The Asian Spirit a most most frequent caller here was at Nustar One about the 2th-21st of April.

After departing Nustar it went to anchor in Inhabitants Bay for a few hours to fix an engine problem.

The Australian Spirit arrived shortly after the Asian Spirit was anchored and loaded cargo for a refinery in New Jersey.Next in was the crude oil tanker NS Lotus on  a very foggy 25th of April.

The Gotland Carolina a gasoline tanker was docked at the inside berth loading product on or about the 28th of April.

An AGM inspection was carried out on the British Tranquility on April the 29th.The Superport Marine Service vessel Strait Pilot was used to shuttle the inspectors to and from .

May 1st saw the return of the Mare Picenum wtth a load of West African crude for the Nustar storage tanks.It was escorted from Charlie 6 buoy and docked by the tugs Svitzer Bedford,Point Valiant and Point Chebucto..The Overseas Andromar arrived and was docked at the inside berth at Nustar on the morning of May 2nd.

Sunday morning the 4th of May saw the Coriolis II steam north and transitted the Canso Lock on its way to Quebec.

   About the same time the Baltic Sapphire was inbound to the Nustar inside berth to load gasoline for a distant market.

Assisting with the docking were the Svitzer owned tugs Svitzer Bedford and Point Chedabucto

The oil products tanker Arctic Blizzard arrived on May 6th about 1330h at the pilot station and was berthed at Nustar Ocean Berth One .

                                              It is expected to depart early morning May 9th.