It is May 27th; still spring but it was a warm day; maybe the first day of summer; no first day of winter; the Captain Henry Jackman came in with the season’s first shipment of salt, making sure we in Duluth will be ready for winter.
When the sun came up, the pile was a little bigger and the Jackman had a lot of early morning visitors stop by. First the Joseph H. Thompson departed for Silver Bay after discharging a cargo of limestone. Next, the Algolake passed by on her way to the Aerial LIft Bridge 
with a cargo of coal. Then the James R. Barker came in, passing by the Jackman on her way to load coal at Midwest Energy, also the next destination for the Jackman. Both will have to wait for the American Century to complete loading coal before they pick up their cargo at Midwest Energy. She came in shortly after the Algolake left, which also opened up the coal dock for the American Century.
Morning on Wednesday, May 19. Each gantry crane has a hold at each end of the bar being used to lift a nacelle from the cargo hold of the Metsaborg (inset). The cranes slowly lift the nacelle out of the hold, over the deck of the ship, on onto a waiting trailer truck.
The Metsaborg arrived Duluth early evening on Sunday, May 16, 2010 with the port’s first shipment of wind turbine parts (left). The ship was loaded in Denmark about three weeks ago and came directly to Duluth. Early Monday morning, employees from Lake Superior Warehousing Company began to discharge the cargo. First off were 48 containers, many loaded onto the weather deck of the ship. Gantry crane #1 is seen above pulling one of the containers off the deck. Crane #2 can be partially seen at the upper left picture.
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 Three days before Memorial Day, we begin the 15th year publishing the summer daily edition of the Duluth Shipping News. It is a 2-page legal size newsletter with advertising, front page header and footer preprinted in color. Each day, that day’s schedule is added along with text and pictures about the day’s boat traffic. I print 1,000 copies every day until the day after Labor Day and distribute them each day around Canal Park. (Last years Aug 22nd’s issue; front page at left and back page above.) There is still time to get your ad included. Front page ads are $550 a column inch for the whole season; back page ads are $450 for the season. Call (218) 722-3119 or email: knewhams@duluthshippingnews.com |
When the sun came up, the pile was a little bigger and the Jackman had a lot of early morning visitors stop by. First the Joseph H. Thompson departed for Silver Bay after discharging a cargo of limestone. Next, the Algolake passed by on her way to the Aerial LIft Bridge 
with a cargo of coal. Then the James R. Barker came in, passing by the Jackman on her way to load coal at Midwest Energy, also the next destination for the Jackman. Both will have to wait for the American Century to complete loading coal before they pick up their cargo at Midwest Energy. She came in shortly after the Algolake left, which also opened up the coal dock for the American Century.
