Hans Lehmann

We have not had many salt water ships this season, but three of them, each launched last year, keep coming back. The Hans Lehmann will be back today for the second time this season. On the first trip in July (above), it brought wind turbine parts. It will load grain on this trip, coming after a lengthy cargo discharge in Chicago. The Asiaborg is expected to arrive here sometime in the next couple weeks after discharging cargo in Detroit and Burns … [Read more...] about Hans Lehmann at Port Terminal

Spain is not usually the first country that comes to mind when we think of salt water traffic and the economy in Duluth but it might be moving up the list. The Hans Lehmann should be departing tonight with spring wheat for Spain. It loaded wind turbine parts in Spain that it brought here last week. This will be the first grain shipped out of the port in a while. This year, the salt water ships that have come to the Twin Ports have mostly loaded … [Read more...] about Hans Lehmann starts and finishes in Spain

The German owned and Gibraltar flagged Hans Lehmann arrived in the Twin Ports on Sunday evening at 7:40. Built in 2007, it is the ship’s first trip here. Inside the ship’s holds were 22 wind turbine nacelles loaded in Spain and destined for Iowa. Stevedores at Lake Superior Warehousing Company started Monday morning and should complete the discharge today. In the picture above, one of the nacelles is being lowered onto a waiting truck by both … [Read more...] about Hans Lehmann here for first time