As Erie Shipping News readers know, Erie is expecting two foreign visitors from the Fednav Group’s fleet this summer. FEDERAL POWER is expected on June 30 to discharge five pieces of general cargo, including two heavy lifts of 212 metric tons each. In August, fleetmate FEDERAL MATANE, or a substitute vessel, is expected to discharge a similar cargo.
These are expected to be the two visits that Fednav’s ships make this year, as Erie will not yet become a regular port of call for the Fednav FALLine team; however, Fednav does call in Erie on inducement.
A little background information on each of the vessels. FEDERAL POWER is one of six Cypriot-flagged sister ships built from 1999 through 2003 at the JiangJiang Shipyard in China. The 469-foot long, 2000-built general cargo ship is capable of carrying a little more than 17,000 tons of cargo on a saltwater draft of 9.7 meters and just over 12,000 metric tons on a Great Lakes draft of 8.0 meters. The POWER is fitted with two cranes of 45 metric tons each, and is capable of carrying 1,098 containers.
The 607-foot long FEDERAL MATANE was built in 2004 in Wenchong Shipyard in China. The vessel is capable of carrying 20,100 metric tons of cargo on a Seaway draft of 8.0 meters and 27,781 metric tons on a Seaway draft of 9.8 meters. The vessel is fitted with three cranes of 30 metric tons each.
FEDERAL POWER is currently in Sorel and is next expected in to Hamilton on the 29th or 30th, and after a day there will head for Erie.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
FEDERAL POWER Due
Erie will see its first foreign-flagged visitor of the 2010 season on June 17, when FEDERAL POWER arrives with project cargo from Antwerp, Belgium. This visit is part of Fednav's FALLine (Federal Atlantic Lakes Line) service, which will see the vessel also visit the ports of Sorel, PQ, Hamilton, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan.
The 145-meter (475.7 foot) long vessel is registered in Limassol, Cyprus, and was built in 2000. More information on the FEDERAL POWER can be found at Fednav's website.
The 145-meter (475.7 foot) long vessel is registered in Limassol, Cyprus, and was built in 2000. More information on the FEDERAL POWER can be found at Fednav's website.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
High winds delay unloading of DAVIKEN
Unloading of the DAVIKEN, which began at 0700 this morning, was delayed later Tuesday due to high winds. The dock crews will try again on Wednesday to unload the vessel so she can depart for Windsor, Ontario.
DAVIKEN is loaded with about 23,500 tons of steel products and project cargo on this inland voyage, about 700 of which will be deposited at the Mountfort Terminal. This cargo, bound for the Accuride plant in Erie, consists of press parts manufactured by Schuler SMG in Waghäusel, Germany and loaded onto the DAVIKEN in Antwerp, Belgium as part of Fednav's FALLine (Federal Atlantic Lakes Line) Service to the Great Lakes. This cargo represents part of Accuride's $25 million investment in its aluminum wheel business.
Erie is not a regularly scheduled stop for the Fednav vessels, so this call is an unusual one for the DAVIKEN.
Of note, the DAVIKEN's near-sistership and fleetmate SANDVIKEN visited Erie twice in 1992 while named PETKA. On her first visit that year, July 29, 1992, the PETKA ran aground in Presque Isle Bay while turning to dock at the Codan Corporation (now the Mountfort Terminal).
The DAVIKEN, ironically enough, arrived in Erie 15 years later, to the day, she arrived as MALINSKA. Her last visit came November 26, 1992 when MALINSKA docked at Codan.
Fednav's FALLine is quickly wrapping up its 48th season of Great Lakes service with the scheduled November 30 sailing of the FEDERAL WESER from Bremen, Germany for Hamilton, Ontario with nearly 21,000 tons of steel products.
DAVIKEN at dock on Tuesday morning.
Part of the DAVIKEN's cargo on the dock in Antwerp. Photo (and much of the information in this report) courtesy of Fednav's FALLine team.
Another view of the cargo.
DAVIKEN is loaded with about 23,500 tons of steel products and project cargo on this inland voyage, about 700 of which will be deposited at the Mountfort Terminal. This cargo, bound for the Accuride plant in Erie, consists of press parts manufactured by Schuler SMG in Waghäusel, Germany and loaded onto the DAVIKEN in Antwerp, Belgium as part of Fednav's FALLine (Federal Atlantic Lakes Line) Service to the Great Lakes. This cargo represents part of Accuride's $25 million investment in its aluminum wheel business.
Erie is not a regularly scheduled stop for the Fednav vessels, so this call is an unusual one for the DAVIKEN.
Of note, the DAVIKEN's near-sistership and fleetmate SANDVIKEN visited Erie twice in 1992 while named PETKA. On her first visit that year, July 29, 1992, the PETKA ran aground in Presque Isle Bay while turning to dock at the Codan Corporation (now the Mountfort Terminal).
The DAVIKEN, ironically enough, arrived in Erie 15 years later, to the day, she arrived as MALINSKA. Her last visit came November 26, 1992 when MALINSKA docked at Codan.
Fednav's FALLine is quickly wrapping up its 48th season of Great Lakes service with the scheduled November 30 sailing of the FEDERAL WESER from Bremen, Germany for Hamilton, Ontario with nearly 21,000 tons of steel products.
DAVIKEN at dock on Tuesday morning.
Part of the DAVIKEN's cargo on the dock in Antwerp. Photo (and much of the information in this report) courtesy of Fednav's FALLine team.
Another view of the cargo.
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