Last saltie of the 2015 season departs Duluth-Superior
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The Port of Duluth-Superior’s last visiting oceangoing vessel of the 2015 season, the 34.564 DWT Federal Bering, sailed beneath the Aerial Bridge and out through the Duluth Ship canal at 6:34 Friday evening, December 17, bound for Mexico with a split load of some 21,000 metric tons of wheat and canola loaded at the CHS terminal in Superior.
Registered in the Marshall Islands, Federal Bering, one of six newly-built bulk carriers in the Fednav fleet, made its first full transit of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system on this visit – arriving in the Port of Duluth-Superior just before midnight on Monday, December 14.
Registered in the Marshall Islands, Federal Bering, one of six newly-built bulk carriers in the Fednav fleet, made its first full transit of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system on this visit – arriving in the Port of Duluth-Superior just before midnight on Monday, December 14.
The port’s first ocean-going ship of the 2015 season – the Maltese-flag bulker M/V Kom – arrived April 12, also to load wheat. Through November, the twin ports had handled more than 29.8 million short tons of Great Lakes and overseas cargo, including nearly 1.3 million tons of wheat and other grains.
Federal Bering loading grain at the CHS elevator in Superior.
Photo/Robert Welton
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