Wintry weather on upper lakes sends vessels to anchor
With gale and storm force winds blowing on all the upper lakes, a number of vessels went to anchor to wait out the weather.
Lake Michigan: Bradshaw Mckee / St Marys Conquest had departed Charlevoix Sunday 20:15 and proceeded to Suttons Bay to anchor. With a westerly gale blowing most vessels were hugging the lee of the western shore Monday.
Lake Huron: Kaye E Barker, Defiance / Ashtabula for Buffington, Sam Laud for Calcite and Calumet for Meldrum Bay were all anchored along the shore north of St Ignace. Algoma Harvester for Quebec City and Walter J McCarthy for Duluth Superior were anchored in the lower St Marys River north of DeTour. The tug Michigan and tanker barge Great Lakes for Green Bay were in the Sarnia anchorage.
Lake Superior: James R Barker for Two Harbors was anchored off of Bay Mills. Mesabi Miner for Duluth Superior was anchored in Goulais Bay. A number of vessels were taking the northshore route.
USCG Neah Bay saves woman from Detroit River
Detroit, MI – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay, normally homeported in Cleveland but moored at the Renaissance Center on the Detroit River Monday, came to rescue when crewmembers heard a faint cry for help from between the ship and the pier.
Crew spotted a woman who had fallen into the 41-degree water and immediately got a life ring to aher and got her out. Some crew gave first aid for minor injuries and hypothermia while others guided EMS and PD to the pier for safe transport to hospital.
Big celebration of LNG bunkering at Port of Quebec
Last Friday, Énergir (the main distributor of natural gas in Quebec), carried out the 100th liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship bunkering at the Port of Quebec. These 100 bunkers made it possible to supply five Desgagnés ships with LNG.
LNG export facilities receive natural gas by pipeline and liquefy the gas for transport on special ocean-going LNG ships or tankers. Most LNG is transported by tankers called LNG carriers in large, onboard, super-cooled (cryogenic) tanks. LNG is also transported in smaller International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-compliant containers that can be placed on ships and on trucks. At import terminals, LNG is offloaded from ships and is stored in cryogenic storage tanks before it is returned to its gaseous state or regasified. After regasification, the natural gas is transported by natural gas pipelines to natural gas-fired power plants, industrial facilities, and residential and commercial customers.
Port of Quebec
