Slip
This little slip cut into the river's north bank just upstream of the Chalmette Battlefield had three ships parked when we past, each in the process of transferring cargo to river barges.
The ship on the left is the Aramis, a 600-foot cargo ship registered in Panama. There seems to be another Aramis currently in China that the ship trackers confuse with this one, but I eventually found that this ship stayed here another week after we saw it, and didn't leave until February 18, when it went to Houston. It stayed another four days in Houston, then left on February 23 bound for Cape Town, South Africa. The ship tracker didn't expect it to arrive in Cape Town until March 22. You can track it here.
The ship closest to me on the right is the Balsa 96, a 346-foot ship also registered in Panama. This must be Panama row. The existence of the Balsa 96 suggests that there are at least 95 other ships named Balsa, which you wouldn't think, because balsa's not a great wood to use for making cargo ships. But that didn't matter much to the people who name ships, as was evidenced by the fact that I saw Balsa 87 underway about an hour after this. (I'll post that picture tomorrow.) Balsa 96 stayed here until February 18, then went and I guess putzed around the Gulf of Mexico for a while, because it's next listed port was Houston, and it didn't get there until yesterday, March 2. It spent the last day moving to another slip up toward Galveston, which is where it is now. You can track that one here.
There's a ship with a two-word name on the far side of the Balsa 96, but I can only see that the first word is "Lisa." Not knowing the second word, I can't track that one.
Slip
This little slip cut into the river's north bank just upstream of the Chalmette Battlefield had three ships parked when we past, each in the process of transferring cargo to river barges.
The ship on the left is the Aramis, a 600-foot cargo ship registered in Panama. There seems to be another Aramis currently in China that the ship trackers confuse with this one, but I eventually found that this ship stayed here another week after we saw it, and didn't leave until February 18, when it went to Houston. It stayed another four days in Houston, then left on February 23 bound for Cape Town, South Africa. The ship tracker didn't expect it to arrive in Cape Town until March 22. You can track it here.
The ship closest to me on the right is the Balsa 96, a 346-foot ship also registered in Panama. This must be Panama row. The existence of the Balsa 96 suggests that there are at least 95 other ships named Balsa, which you wouldn't think, because balsa's not a great wood to use for making cargo ships. But that didn't matter much to the people who name ships, as was evidenced by the fact that I saw Balsa 87 underway about an hour after this. (I'll post that picture tomorrow.) Balsa 96 stayed here until February 18, then went and I guess putzed around the Gulf of Mexico for a while, because it's next listed port was Houston, and it didn't get there until yesterday, March 2. It spent the last day moving to another slip up toward Galveston, which is where it is now. You can track that one here.
There's a ship with a two-word name on the far side of the Balsa 96, but I can only see that the first word is "Lisa." Not knowing the second word, I can't track that one.