Although its name conjours up images of spraying jets of water, there was only a more feeble effort as the tanker Harbour Fountain arrived in port this morning, August 7, and berthed at Irving Oil's Woodside terminal.
The ship was flushing down its anchor and chain after spending the night at anchor off Halifax. Whatever delightful muck that was collected in that interval was sent back overside where it belonged. Some of the wash water was carried away as spray, but would hardly qualify as a fountain.
The tug Atlantic Beaver was trying to avoid the spray as it made up forward.
(The Atlantic Oak had aleady made up aft.)
The ship arrived from New York, but has been in Albany, NY, Providence, RI, Quebec City and Montreal since crossing the Atlantic in June from Vlaardingen - Rotterdam, and Hamburg.
The Harbour Fountain was built by the Yangfan Group in Youshan in 2011 and is a 11,896 gt, 16,929 dwt chemical and product tanker. It is an Ice class 1A ship with heated and epoxy coated tanks. The ship operates (commercially) in the IceChem pool, based in Copenhagen, but with offices world wide, including Cyprus and Stamford, CT. Technical management is by TB Marine Ship Management of Hamburg, the principal owner of IceChem. The ship carries a "TBMarine" funnel marking.
IceChem operates primarily in North Europe, including the Baltic, the Western Mediterranean, transAtlantic, US east and Gulf coasts and the Caribbean. Its ships are also well known in the Great Lakes. The ship can carry full cargoes, but is also well suited to carrying "parcels" of different chemicals (including additives), which may explain the odd assortment of recent ports.
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