Oil and LNG Tanker Traffic near the Port of Saint John
April 23, 2015
Canaport
Ship Name and type Astro Challenge, crude oil tanker Registry Greece Deadweight Tonnage 300,000 Recent ports Saudi Arabia via Durban, South Africa Comments This is a VLCC (very large crude carrier) having travelled 45 days from the Middle East, carrying around 2 million barrels ($100 million worth) of crude
Ship Name and type British Robin, oil products tanker Registry UK Deadweight Tonnage 114,000 Recent ports Venezuela via Houston area Comments A relatively small tanker for imports, but as it has come from Venezuela, it may be carrying Venezuela’s Orimulsion heavy oil/water mix that is pipelined from Canaport to Coleson Cove power plant. Coleson Cove doesn’t operate every day, but if it did, would consume 5 million barrels of Orimulsion per year
Ship Name and type Sestao Knutsen, LNG carrier Registry Spain Deadweight Tonnage 77,000 Recent ports Trinidad Comments Delivering liquefied natural gas (LNG) for New Brunswick and New England markets
Saint John (Courtney Bay)
Ship Name and type New England, oil products tanker Registry US Marshall Islands Deadweight Tonnage 47,000 Recent ports Back and forth from Saint John to Portland and Boston Comments Chartered to Irving; probably delivering refined products to New England
Ship Name and type Maersk Katalin, oil products tanker Registry Singapore Deadweight Tonnage 40,000 Recent ports Back and forth between Saint John and ports in Maine Comments Probably delivering refined products to New England
D.MacPhail
Ship Name and type Asphalt Sailor, oil products tanker Registry US Marshall Islands Deadweight Tonnage 9,000 Recent ports Back and forth from Saint John to ports in ME and NY Comments Probably delivering asphalt as the Saint John refinery starts to produce it for the summer road-paving season
Ocean-going tankers importing crude and LNG to Canaport
Coastal tankers delivering products refined in Saint John to New England
D.MacPhail