River Thames: Bontrup Amsterdam
A "self discharging bulk carrier" Bontrup Amsterdam being brought to Tilbury 2 docks on the River Thames, a short distance down river from the main Tilbury Docks site. It came up river conventionally, with a tug at either end from the turn into Gravesend Reach, then slowing considerably as it neared Tilbury 2, before the tugs turned it (the second tug is out of view...) to bring it alongside its mooring.
I'd thought it was going to turn out to be an unusually large dredger, but it isn't: it's certainly larger (224 metres in lenghth) than the other dredgers I've seen moor at Tilbury 2, but it doesn't bring up its cargo itself. It arrived from Glensanda, the largest granite quarry in Europe, so I assume that's what it was carrying.
Tilbury 2 has 2 berths for roll on/roll off cargo ships, plus a berth for aggregates carriers; the site, it seems, also has facilities for asphalt and cement mixing. Just what is needed.
The ship is another Hyundai, built in 1984 in South Korea and formerly known as El Amir, Amir and, of course, W.H.Blount.
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River Thames: Bontrup Amsterdam
A "self discharging bulk carrier" Bontrup Amsterdam being brought to Tilbury 2 docks on the River Thames, a short distance down river from the main Tilbury Docks site. It came up river conventionally, with a tug at either end from the turn into Gravesend Reach, then slowing considerably as it neared Tilbury 2, before the tugs turned it (the second tug is out of view...) to bring it alongside its mooring.
I'd thought it was going to turn out to be an unusually large dredger, but it isn't: it's certainly larger (224 metres in lenghth) than the other dredgers I've seen moor at Tilbury 2, but it doesn't bring up its cargo itself. It arrived from Glensanda, the largest granite quarry in Europe, so I assume that's what it was carrying.
Tilbury 2 has 2 berths for roll on/roll off cargo ships, plus a berth for aggregates carriers; the site, it seems, also has facilities for asphalt and cement mixing. Just what is needed.
The ship is another Hyundai, built in 1984 in South Korea and formerly known as El Amir, Amir and, of course, W.H.Blount.
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