It is paving season in Nova Scotia, and the demand for asphalt must be at its peak. Last week Miller McAsphalt (the Canadian subsidiary of Colas, the multi-national from France) brought in a full cargo of asphalt on its articulated tug / barge Leo A. McArthur / Johnn J. Carrick [ see post from July 7 ]. That cargo came from the Great Lakes, possibly Hamilton, ON.
Today, July 15, they received another consignment, this time on the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Asphalt Carrier.
The ship was built in 2010 by Kraljevica Shipyard in Croatia. It is a 6292 gt, 9,230 dwt tanker equipped with a large boiler plant and heating system to keep asphalt in a liquid state.
The Asphalt Carrier is a caller in Saint John, NB where it loads asphalt for US and Caribbean ports. This time however it is bringing asphalt. Its last port is given as Providence, but that is usually a discharge port. Before that it was in Willemstad (June 13 to 26) a more likely source of the product. From an examination of the plimsoll marks on the ship's hull, I believe it was not fully laden on arrival here.
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