IMMEDIATE RELEASE             July 8, 2005

Duluth, Minn., U.S.A.—Canada Steamship Line’s Jean Parisien, a frequent Port visitor in the past, will arrive under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge at approximately 6 a.m. tomorrow (July 9) for the first time with her new name.

Named the CSL Assiniboine during a ceremony at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., in early March, she is the fourth CSL vessel to undergo a forebody replacement. Her $30 million makeover at the Port Weller Dry Docks was part of a $225-million fleet-renewal by CSL. The Assiniboine is now equipped with two front-end loaders to facilitate unloading, the first vessel of this type in CSL’s fleet.

The Great Lakes self-unloading bulk carrier was built in 1977 by Davie Shipbuilding Ltd., Lauzon, Quebec. She was named posthumously for Jean Parisien, the senior deputy chairman of the Power Corporation of Canada, Montreal.

A christening ceremony for the Assiniboine was held June 29 at the Port Weller Dry Docks. CSL named her as a tribute to Canada’s prairies and its grain industry. As noted in the spring edition of CSL World, “The Assiniboine River rises in Southeastern Saskatchewan and winds across the fertile, wheat-growing plains of Manitoba and joins the Red River at Winnipeg.”

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