Thunder Bay's port isn't even a shadow of its former self; you have to have mass to cast a shadow. Or something? What it does in a year, it once did in a week.
Our first Salty arrived on Tuesday morning, it will bring Canada wheat to Casablanca which is pretty cool I guess. The first Laker was a month ago.
https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-ne...t-salty-903420
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THUNDER BAY -- The M.V. Federal Bering officially opened ocean-going traffic for the 2018 navigation season on Tuesday at Canada's farthest inland port.
Thunder Bay port and civic officials welcomed Captain Philips Kuruvilla and Chief Engineer Mario Peter Andrades with the port's traditional Top Hat ceremony.
Federal Bering, a 200-metre ocean carrier fitted for the Great Lakes, was commissioned in 2015 and is owned by Fednav, which is Canada's largest international dry-bulk ocean transportation group.
She will load 21,000 metric tonnes of wheat before embarking on a 7,800-kilometre journey to her destination port of Casablanca, Morocco.
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The Port of Thunder Bay operated April to January in 2017 and moved 8.8 million tonnes on 393 vessels. For comparison, the busiest year was 1983, when 1,359 vessels moved 23.6 million tonnes.
http://www.portofthunderbay.com/arti...istics-281.asp
In terms of total land area dedicated to port activities, Thunder Bay has one of the largest in the country. In other terms, it's not very large anymore. Duluth-Superior is similar to Thunder Bay in that almost all of its waterfront is dedicated to industry. Unlike Toronto where people live on the water, no one lives
near it in this city. Our breakwater is also among the longest in the world, and one of the furthest from land, since the bay is too large to provide adequate shelter.