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| The Marlene Green arrived in port Sunday morning, June 29th, 2008, with 42 wind turbine tower sections, built by General Electric and destined to go by truck from Duluth to wind farms in Minnesota and Iowa. Last November, she came into port with 40 wind turbine base units destined for a wind farm in Mountain Iron. |
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| The BBC Elbe arrived in Duluth on Thursday morning June 19th, 2008, with a cargo of wind turbine parts. Above, she is backing into the slip at the Port Terminal where she began discharging her cargo very soon after arriving. The Great Lakes tug fleet is seen in front of the ship and the lay down area for previous wind turbine equipment is seen at left, waiting to be loaded onto trucks for transport to a wind farm. |
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| The BBC Ontario came into port on June 13th to discharge 11 component sets (minus blades) of Siemens wind turbines loaded in Denmark. Above, a truck from Badger Transport, Inc. is moving three spinners to another part of the Port Terminal to await shipment to Iowa. |
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| The 16th annual series of River Quest educational cruises for area sixth grade students started on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008. Becky McMillan (right) talks to students at the Port Authority station about the Vista Star. At left, new Port Authority Public Relations Manager Adele Yorde stands by ready to take over when needed. (more) |
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Keith Johnson and his son Eric created this snow sculpture of the steamer Reserve, the favorite of many boats his father Captain Armand Johnson worked on and captained during his 36 year career at Columbia/Oblebay Norton. Captain Armand Johnson died this past December; the above is a fitting memorial. The boat is located in the front yard, at 4892 Woodridge Drive, just off Stebner Road in Hermantown. (the picture was taken by Captain Tom Mackay (Ret.))
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| Above, the BBC Ems stopped for fuel at the Murphy Oil Fuel Dock at the Port Terminal on Saturday, November 24, 2007. With a cargo of 44 wind turbine blades with 22 of them on the weather deck, the ship was getting 800 tons of heavy fuel for the trip to Spain. It was the largest order Murphy has ever had at their Duluth terminal. The fuel will provide the ship with more stability, needed since the blades are very light, made of fiber glass and are hollow. She departed Duluth on Friday night, November 23rd, 2007 after 6 hours getting the fuel. Below, longshoremen and iron workers at Lake Superior Warehousing Company completed loading the BBC Ems with a cargo of 44 wind turbine blades on Friday evening, November 24th. The cargo will be discharged in Spain. |
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| Project cargo was taken off the Jumbo Spirit today (October 26, 2007). Transferred to railcars, these two pieces will be going to a Suncor Energy oil sands extraction project in Alberta. |
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