Tug/Barge Combo, Salties Making First Visits Inland

ATB combo Cape Henry and DBL103 barge are currently making a scheduled stop in Montreal for their mandatory Seaway inspection before heading further inland. This is the newly-built American tugboat and oil barge combo’s maiden voyage up the St. Lawrence Seaway. They are bound for Sarnia, ON, to pick up a cargo of diesel fuel before making the return trip to New York.

Another new vessel belonging to the Polish shipping company Polsteam will transit the St. Lawrence Seaway, arriving in approximately eight days. This is the Polsteam Weltyn, built last

year. Its destination(s) are currently unknown.

Currently at Erie, PA, after a stopover in Montreal from Tuticorin, India, is the BBC Genoa. Built in 2024, this is its first transit of the St. Lawrence Seaway. She is carrying a cargo of windmill parts.

Golden Banyan of Seacon Marine was at the Shell middle dock in Sarnia on Sunday loading petroleum products. She sails under the flag of Liberia.

Rene Beauchamp, Jeff Vandenberg, Janey Anderson