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  • #362
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Strangely enough anchored in bantry bay this morning http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=235091659&header=true


  • #363
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Usually means a dramatic change in the price of fuel has happened, or is about to happen.


  • #364
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    goldie fish wrote: »
    Usually means a dramatic change in the price of fuel has happened, or is about to happen.
    ...they wait for the increase in the price per liter to be posted and then the tankers unload!


  • #365
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    I was talking to a friend who works on Whiddy,the last few tankers were delivering crude to the island.


  • #366
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Well they'll either be delivering it, or collecting it. I don't think whiddy can accept refined product.


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  • #367
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    goldie fish wrote: »
    Well they'll either be delivering it, or collecting it. I don't think whiddy can accept refined product.
    It sure can,at the minute there is home heating oil and jet fuel out there.


  • #368
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    mp22 wrote: »
    It sure can,at the minute there is home heating oil and jet fuel out there.

    Be a warm Summer and a short flight if those two get mixed up.


  • #369
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Be a warm Summer and a short flight if those two get mixed up.

    Not really in the absence of oxygen one would float over the other


  • #370
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    mp22 wrote: »
    It sure can,at the minute there is home heating oil and jet fuel out there.
    Jet fuel! Who are they holding that for, Cork Airport?


  • #371
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Rocky Bay wrote: »
    Jet fuel! Who are they holding that for, Cork Airport?
    Probably holding on to it till the price goes up.A tank holds 65,000 tons.


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  • #372
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    Out of curiosity, does anybody know how the airport gets its fuel? I would think by pipeline but I don't recall seeing any pipeline signs about.


  • #373
    seanmacc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭seanmacc


    Rocky Bay wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, does anybody know how the airport gets its fuel? I would think by pipeline but I don't recall seeing any pipeline signs about.

    I believe there is a pipeline that runs along the outside of the port tunnel. It regularly goes out of action and the stuff has to be brought by road


  • #374
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    seanmacc wrote: »
    I believe there is a pipeline that runs along the outside of the port tunnel. It regularly goes out of action and the stuff has to be brought by road
    Port Tunnel is in Dublin.


  • #375
    clobanna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭clobanna


    As far as i am aware the fuel for Cork Airport comes by road tanker from Foynes in Co Limerick


  • #376
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    On the SPM in Bantry Bay today http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=372383000&header=true


  • #377
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    who the fug wrote: »
    Not really in the absence of oxygen one would float over the other

    That went over your head ;)


  • #378
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,879 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=235007859&header=true

    Deep Diver One currently working outside Arklow?


  • #379
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Just an update for those interested in Whiddy they have crude,jet fuel and petrol at the minute.Tank 402 in next in line for a new floor and roof.


  • #380
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    mp22 wrote: »
    Just an update for those interested in Whiddy they have crude,jet fuel and petrol at the minute.Tank 402 in next in line for a new floor and roof.
    Love to know how they put in a new floor, must be complicated I would think.


  • #381
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Rocky Bay wrote: »
    Love to know how they put in a new floor, must be complicated I would think.
    Cut a large door in side of tank,cut up old floor drag out with skid steer,drag in new floor (sheets 8*20 feet)tack then weld up.Oh Yea the roof is landed and sitting on 200 plus legs new floor needs to go under them, then new pads on top of the floor.weld up door in side of tank.Main tanks run 1 and 1/8 acre floor space.Roof's float on contents of the tank.


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  • #382
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,589 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    mp22 wrote: »
    Cut a large door in side of tank,cut up old floor drag out with skid steer,drag in new floor (sheets 8*20 feet)tack then weld up.

    Why would the floor not just be lifted in through the (removed) roof rather than cutting open the tank?


  • #383
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Why would the floor not just be lifted in through the (removed) roof rather than cutting open the tank?
    Tanks are aprox 60 feet high the crane could only land the sheets in one spot,the they have to be dragged into place.Generally removing the roof will be done the same way ie hole in tank.


  • #384
    dvcireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,931 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    48 nautical miles off Old Head Kinsale

    http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=412032000&header=true

    12 nautical miles off Wexford

    http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=257871000&header=true

    12 nautical miles off Sheeps Head

    http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=357065000&header=true


  • #385
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    The Alfa Germania is back in the neighborhood, at anchor outside Cork harbour as I type. Some of you may remember the picture of her and the Orpheas taken in Bantry Bay last June. (There was actually a third tanker headed inbound at that time but did not make it into the picture.) According to the Port of Cork website, the Alfa Germania does make another move until the 4th of July. Almost two weeks sitting around and not making any money......


  • #386
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Rocky Bay wrote: »
    The Alfa Germania is back in the neighborhood, at anchor outside Cork harbour as I type. Some of you may remember the picture of her and the Orpheas taken in Bantry Bay last June. (There was actually a third tanker headed inbound at that time but did not make it into the picture.) According to the Port of Cork website, the Alfa Germania does make another move until the 4th of July. Almost two weeks sitting around and not making any money......

    The ship may not be, but its cargo might.


  • #387
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    goldie fish wrote: »
    The ship may not be, but its cargo might.
    Never thought of that! Could that be another case of..."wait till the price is increased at the petrol stations and then we will unload" ?


  • #388
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Oil cargoes change owners hundreds of times between ports.


  • #389
    LiamoSail
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,294 ✭✭✭LiamoSail


    Loaded or not, a ship doesn't have to be underway to be making money. Assuming its chartered, and the notice of readiness has been tendered, sitting at anchor can be worth big money


  • #390
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,879 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Empire State, US training ship currently entering Dublin Port

    http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=366897000&header=true


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  • #391
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    LiamoSail wrote: »
    Loaded or not, a ship doesn't have to be underway to be making money. Assuming its chartered, and the notice of readiness has been tendered, sitting at anchor can be worth big money
    Suppose the Alfa is out there empty, does that still apply? What is the "notice of readiness" ?


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