The Isa arrived in Duluth this afternoon (November 16, 2011) for her 16th trip here since she came here in August, 1999, on a long trip that started in Japan. The Isa was built in Chiba, Japan. After launch festivities, they left the shipyard for Fukuyama, where they loaded steel slabs and headed out to the Pacific Ocean, through the Panama Canal and up to Detroit. After a quick trip to Thunder Bay to load grain, they left for Casablanca where they discharged the grain before moving to Tunisia to load phosphate for Politza, Poland, only a few kilometers from the homeport of the ship, Szczecin. They left Politza to load steel coils in Holland for Cleveland and Chicago and then came to Duluth. As in that trip, she is loading grain today. Listen here for her whistle as she came under the Lift Bridge.
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very nice!