The Nassauborg has been loading beet pulp pellets at General Mills in Duluth (above) but this past winter, she was in Zhoushan (China) getting more footage added to her length. In the picture below, courtesy of Captain Menno van der Groen, both the Prinsenborg (foreground) and the Nassauborg, just behind the Prinsenborg, are in drydock for the upgrade. They went in at 468 feet long and came out over 570 feet long. According to the captain, the addition will add to their cargo space without increasing their draught, thus maintaining their ability to service shallow ports. The upgrade will not change the ship’s fuel consumption or speed.
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| The Morraborg came into port on Sunday morning; its first trip to the Twin Ports since it was built in 1999. It went over to berth 1 (above) at the Port Terminal. Today, longshoremen will begin to discharge heavy project cargo from the boat. The Kaye E. Barker has made the Twin Ports its new home port. It has arrived in port this month on the 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and it is expected again today. It loaded coal for Taconite Harbor on most of the trips and took the same cargo to Marquette twice. Photo taken on November 23, 2008 |
| *submitted to the Duluth News Tribune for publication on 11-24-2008 |
The Asiaborg came under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge on May 7th, 2008 and encountered a traffic jam as she turned up the Duluth harbor. The CSL Assiniboine (in the rear at right) came into port at 4:25 pm, the Asiaborg (at left) arrived at 4:37 and the John J. Boland came between them before going under the Lift Bridge at 5:03.
After the Asiaborg got through the ‘situation’, top, she moved into the port terminal to discharge wind trubine parts from Denmark. They were taken by truck to a wind farm in Iowa. Above, a nacelle is slowly discharged from the Asiaborg by the two Port Terminal cranes working in tandem.
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| The Dutch flagged Vechtborg will be here today for only the 4th time since it was built in 1998. Above, it is coming into port in 2005. It will load beet pulp pellets. Today, we will see one other Dutch flagged ship, 2 Canadian flagged and 3 US flagged boats. They will load taconite, coal and grain. No cargo will be discharged in the port today. In September, we loaded 975,736 tons of cargo to Canadian boats and discharged only 41,854 tons. We shipped out 2,886,096 tons of cargo on US flagged boats and discharged only 447,588 tons from US flagged boats. The salt water traffic was similar. We loaded 508,194 tons of cargo and only discharged 6,681 tons from foreign flagged vessels. Our imports are mostly limestone, cement, wind turbine blades and other general cargo. Photo taken on October 11,2005 |
| *submitted to the Duluth News Tribune for publication on 11-21-2007 |
The Nassauborg has been loading beet pulp pellets at General Mills in Duluth (above) but this past winter, she was in Zhoushan (China) getting more footage added to her length. In the picture below, courtesy of Captain Menno van der Groen, both the Prinsenborg (foreground) and the Nassauborg, just behind the Prinsenborg, are in drydock for the upgrade. They went in at 468 feet long and came out over 570 feet long. According to the captain, the addition will add to their cargo space without increasing their draught, thus maintaining their ability to service shallow ports. The upgrade will not change the ship’s fuel consumption or speed. 
