Crossing the Atlantic with cement

Panjandrums

https://afloat.ie/port-news/port-and-shipping-news/item/44061-ship-holed-at-south-galway-pier-detained-by-irish-authorities-as-residents-fear-pollution-risk

I'm no expert but surely crossing the Atlantic with cement makes no sense given the size of the boat and it being 50 years old.

I wonder what they arrived here with.

kneemos

They came over with a load of something presumably, they wouldn't be going back empty.
Cement seems like a low value item, though needed after the hurricane.

Lyle Lanley

Any reason for the suggestions of drug trafficking other than them being from below the wall?

Capt'n Midnight

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Any reason for the suggestions of drug trafficking other than them being from below the wall?

A leak in a ship carrying cement ?

Oh yeah , they'll be stoned.

Charlie19

I thought it was going to be a massive bridge.

Atlantic Dawn

Perhaps they are trying to corner the cement market in the Bahamas with the hurricane damage.

You would certainly need to be a glass half full person to venture across the Atlantic in her...

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Perhaps they are trying to corner the cement market in the Bahamas with the hurricane damage.

You would certainly need to be a glass half full person to venture across the Atlantic in her...

seen worse!

Badly Drunk Boy

Charlie19 wrote: »

I thought it was going to be a massive bridge.

..Or at least about reclaiming land off the west coast (getting rid of the jagged edges).

Capt'n Midnight

Details
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:942352/mmsi:-7006041/imo:7006041/vessel:EVORA

Gross Tonnage: 201
Deadweight: 340 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 30.1m × 7.07m
Year Built: 1969

peasant

Panjandrums wrote: »

I'm no expert but surely crossing the Atlantic with cement makes no sense given the size of the boat and it being 50 years old.

I'm no expert either, but I'd say the hurrican relief effort is reserving the planes for medicines and other essentials, whereas cement can quite well be shipped (see what they did there?) in an old vessel like this.
They'd hardly have the time or money to commission a brand new one.

somefeen

That is actually a suspiciously small boat for cement?
I'm no expert either but since cement has a fairly low value to volume ratio I thought you'd need a much bigger ship to make it worthwhile

Atlantic Dawn

Apparently the boat was owned in Galway for some time...

The vessel, built in France 50 years ago, was formerly owned in Co. Galway, but was sold to a new owner within the past 12 months. The owner confirmed that the vessel had been detained, but did not comment further.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/ship-holed-at-galway-pier-detained-as-residents-fear-pollution-risk-950664.html

Atlantic Dawn

somefeen wrote: »

That is actually a suspiciously small boat for cement?
I'm no expert either but since cement has a fairly low value to volume ratio I thought you'd need a much bigger ship to make it worthwhile

Perhaps they are going to bring a shipment of Poitin west

chooseusername

somefeen wrote: »

That is actually a suspiciously small boat for cement?
I'm no expert either but since cement has a fairly low value to volume ratio I thought you'd need a much bigger ship to make it worthwhile

It'd be gone off by the time they got to the Windies

peasant

somefeen wrote: »

That is actually a suspiciously small boat for cement?
I'm no expert either but since cement has a fairly low value to volume ratio I thought you'd need a much bigger ship to make it worthwhile

200 tons of cement is quite a lot and I would suspect that his is not the only ship. Also..I don't think that there are all that many deep sea ports on the Abaco Islands or on Grand Bahama..a supertanker full of cement would have nowhere to unload...nowhere near where the stuff is needed anyway.

kneemos

The cement might be as much for ballast as anything maybe.

Atlantic Dawn

Boat still detained...
https://afloat.ie/port-news/port-and-shipping-news/item/44108-damaged-ship-still-being-detained-near-kinvara-co-galway