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Posted by admin in Maritime on 06 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Enbridge releases tanker plans for Kitimat

Better late than never, I’ve been plugging my way through the marine side of Enbridge’s application to bring supertankers into B.C.’s northwestern waters. Last weekend, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I saw Enbridge’s huge advert in The Vancouver Sun claiming its Northern Gateway project...
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Posted by admin in Maritime on 03 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Fight over Arctic shipping routes

Fight over Arctic shipping routes
My article over the battle for the Arctic is now on the web: Global players jockey over Arctic shipping routes A second story about the strong ties between Prince Rupert, B.C. and Memphis, Tennessee has also gone online: Prince Rupert looks towards...
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Posted by admin in Maritime on 03 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

B.C. longshore casuals take a beating

B.C. longshore casuals take a beating
By Alison Bate First published in Maritime Magazine, Fall 2009 Vancouver longshore worker Karen Crossan (pictured) stood in the ghostly dispatch hall looking vainly for work on tonight’s graveyard shift. “I’m bored and I am broke,” she said, after learning there was no work that...
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Posted by admin in Maritime on 01 4th, 2009 | No Comments

What if a containership ran aground on Nootka Island?

By Alison Bate When a ship gets into trouble off the remote west coast of Vancouver Island, there are very few rescue services around. The province relies on a commercial tug in the area being able to help out. Currently, major seagoing tugs carry electronic tracking devices so they can be located in...
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Posted by admin in Maritime on 12 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Tug escort rules vary in B.C.

By Alison Bate I must admit I was a little surprised not to get a straight answer from Transport Canada at first about the number of tug escorts traveling with condensate tankers into Kitimat. I assumed it was clearly set down in the legislation whether tankers carrying this kind of hydrocarbon mixture...
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Posted by admin in Featured Articles, Maritime on 11 22nd, 2008 | No Comments

What if a tanker heading for Kitimat hit another vessel?

By Alison Bate What would happen if a tanker on its way to Kitimat collided with a tug in the scenic Inside Passage? According to the author of a new report, major flaws would be exposed in the way marine accidents are handled here in British Columbia. “Nobody is essentially watching the store –...
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Posted by admin in Maritime on 10 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

The end of the New Carissa

By Alison Bate The Ship That Will Not Die has finally been laid to rest, after nearly a decade stuck in the surf zone of a remote Oregon beach. Titan Salvage used the jack-up barges Karlissa A and Karlissa B to remove the last visible remains of the New Carissa this week.The stern of the New Carissa in...
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Posted by admin in Maritime on 09 23rd, 2008 | No Comments

The legacy of the Cosco Busan

By Alison Bate It looks like a primitive computer game, but this real-time ship tracking system on the BoatingSF.com website shows the containership Cosco Busan hitting the Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay last November. The ship, leaving its berth in Oakland in heavy fog with the required pilot on board, is...
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