PORT OPEN FOR SEASON; FIRST FOREIGN VISITOR DUE

ADAM E. CORNELIUS finally arrived in port at 1500 today and docked at the Old Ore Dock with stone from Calcite, Michigan to open Erie's 2008 shipping season. The vessel should be in port for several hours before departing to return to Calcite to load stone.

The second vessel of the young season, and the first foreign-flagged visitor of the season, the STELLANOVA, is due in Erie sometime next Tuesday with 775 tons of steel mill components loaded in Valetta, Malta.

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CORNELIUS in Presque Isle Bay, turning for the Old Ore Dock.


Approaching the Old Ore Dock. The CORNELIUS was drawing 24 feet, which is deeper than the vessel could have loaded before Lakeshore Towing completed dredging late last year.


The first few tons of stone to reach the port in 2008 come off the boom of the CORNELIUS.


Unloading.