Different Ships at 9C (and corrected correction)

 Instead of the recent string of multi-purpose general cargo ships with aircraft components at Pier 9C (see footnote) there have been different ships for different reasons in recent days.

When the coastal tanker Algoscotia arrived on October 14 it did not tie up at Imperial Oil as usual, but went directly to Pier 9C, perhaps for some maintenance work that could not be done at the oil dock. The jetty at Imperial only has a catwalk type access to shore, so in not accessible by trucks.

A mobile crane was soon at work, along with the ship's own derrick, at the ship's pump room. 

 

While alongside the ship also took the opportunity to refuel. A tank truck arrived and set up to pump fuel aboard. The truck and trailer belong to RST Transport which provides refueling services in the port. 

RST, which stands for Road Sea Transport, is part of J.D.Irving, Limited - a separate branch of the Irving family of companies from Irving Oil. Irving Oil has its own fleet of trucks, but RST provides the added service of ship fueling.

 

Once work was completed the ship moved to Imperial Oil October 16. It loaded product and sailed for Sydney on October 17. 

 

Today, October 18 it was a larger ship arrival, the self-unloading bulk carrier CSL Tacoma. A 43,691 gt,71,000 dwt ship, part of the Trillium class, built in 2013 by Chengxi Shipyard.

 

 It was also met by a truck crane and other trucks carrying various materials. Among them was what appeared to be replacement belting for the self-unloading conveyor system. The constant exposure to abrasive and corrosive materials like rock and salt, must put a great deal of wear and tear on the reinforced rubber belts. The belt system runs the full length of the hold and through a series of elevating belts up to the 80 meter long unloading boom. At a rough guess there must be at least 600 meters of conveyor belt on this ship, so the roll I could see on the delivery truck (at right in photo below) represents only a relativeley small section that will presumably be spliced in.

 

 

 Later in the day the ship moved to Gold Bond Gypsum to load. The ship arrived from Wilmington, NC and could be headed for any one of several US ports ranging from New Hampshire to Florida.

 

Correction to Corrections

It is with considerable embarrassment that I acknowledge errors in some past posts. They have to do with the recent visit of the ship Arctic Rock. 

First It seems that the ship did indeed deliver aircraft components from Italy. Two tail sections can be seen at Pier 9C, and had no other means of appearing there, except on that ship.

 

Second the ship did not load a large transformer because that unit is still here, on its heavy rail car, awaiting the arrival of another ship, (a BBC heavy lift ship is due tomorrow.)

 

I have corrected the original entries by striking out the incorrect information and entering new information in italics.

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