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MV Canadian Transfer First Shi

 

 MV  Canadian Transfer First Ship In Thunder Bay

 

by Scott A. Sumner
Thunder Bay Business

    The MV Canadian Transfer arrived during the morning hours on Friday March 28th to officially open the Port of Thunder Bays 2008 Navigation Season.
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   Captain Wallace James received the traditional top hat. “We started out March 24th from Goderich, Ontario where our winter birth is located nd had to have some ice breaker help. The last 3 or 4 years we have started later the first week of April,” noted Captain Wallace James. “ We are picking up potash which is used by farmers in fertilizators and taking the 15,500 ton cargo to Toledo.  I have been on the ship for 5 seasons and grew up in a fishing family in Newfoundland. We do 60 days
on the ship and 30 days off for 6 months of the year. In the winter I ride nowmobiles.”
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    “ Lake Superior is a great lake when the weather is good, you have to watch the weather in the winter time as you get some pretty good breezes out there. When the weather gets bad we coast down the north shore and take some shelter,” noted James. “You can get 15 to 20 foot seas and gail force winds when the weather is bad. We have to watch the eather.  It rides good if headed into the waves.”

    The M.V Canadian Transfer is 650 feet long and took 20 hours to get to Thunder Bay from when it left Sault Ste Marie.  In the spring of the year the ship can do 14 knots and has a 6000 HP  diesel engine. Pritim Lamba, Port Authority Chair called the first ship  A sign of spring and the economy of the port after the winter.




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