Posted by Pete in Holland MI on January 04, 2021 at 09:36:17 from (68.188.148.217):
In Reply to: Wheat shipment posted by sourgum on January 03, 2021 at 21:41:20:
Ships from all over the world come to get the grain harvested in the mid-west of the US & Canada. The big terminals are in Duluth, MN, or Thunder Bay, ON. Both on Lake Superior. The locks in the Welland Canal (gets ya around Niagara Falls) are set to close for the season on January 8, 2021. The locks in Sault Ste Marie will close on January 15 for the winter. Anybody upstream of these locks by those dates will stay there for the winter.
Bulk ships have several cargo holds to carry anything from grain, coal, ore, salt, stone. Basically any dry material that can be poured & conveyed. Depending on their next cargo, their holds are cleaned to varying degrees. There are ballast tanks, so that when they are empty, water can be pumped in to keep the boat down in the water. When a boat rides high in the water, they are greater impacted by rough water, and wind. These tanks are independent of the cargo holds.
The Great Lakes sport some seriously large ships. There are 105' wide by 1000' long ships that can haul 70,000 tons of ore. A lot of the US economy depends on the materials that move back & forth on the Great Lakes.
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