tarboat's photos with the keyword: port

Chemical tanker BRO DEVELOPER unloading in Roath Dock, Cardiff. The Danish registered ship is owned by Maersk Tankers. It was built in China in 2007 and has a gross tonnage of 11344.

Access to the Holiday Inn at Ellesmere Port requires traversing this swing bridge over the canal lock into the docks. A notable feature is the pointless arc of brickwork on the floor beyond the balance beam and running behind the lamp.

Discharging grain at the Royal Seaforth Dock in Liverpool. KAVO AETOS is a Bulk Carrier built in 2003 by Tsuneishi Heavy Industries (Cebu) Inc. as the BULK SCORPIO and is sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands. The length overall is 189.99 metres and width is 32.26 metres. The gross registered tonnage is 30,054 and deadweight 52,384.

Offloading oil in Roath Dock, Cardiff. The Bro Developer is a 11,344 GRT chemical/oil tanker built in 2007 and owned by Maersk Tankers.

The grain silos at berth 27 of the inner harbour at Port Adelaide can supply wheat and barley to the ship loaders at up to 700 tonnes per hour. Viterra also has a newer deep water terminal in the outer harbour. In the right background is the works of Adelaide Brighton Cement. The ship is the Singapore registered bulk carrier 'Ocean Hiryu'.

The port of Silloth looking across the outer harbour to the dock gates. This is one of the smaller harbours administered by Associated British Ports. Cargoes imported here include wheat, fertiliser and molasses. The new dock opened in June 1885 and, two years later, Carr’s flour mill was built alongside it. In 1836 Jonathan Dodgson Carr started milling flour at the Carr’s Silloth Mill located in Cumbria. This was to supply flour for his famous Carr’s Table Water biscuit factory. Within 15 years Carr’s of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in Britain. It is here at Silloth, where all the retail range of bags of Carr’s flour are made and packed. 50% of Silloth Mill's wheat requirement is delivered by ship in loads of up to 3500 tonnes. The business is now owned by Whitworth Holdings Ltd.

P&O ferry 'Pride of Hull' sits on the berth in the Humber close to the entrance lock to the King George V Dock at Hull. Sadly this ship is now crewed with cheap foreign labour after the company sacked all the existing crew of its various ferries. This ship is registered at Nassau in the Bahamas. The ferry service from Hull sails to Rotterdam every night.

Three large Braithwaite Tanks provide water storage at the Nyrstar lead/zinc smelter at Port Pirie, South Australia.

A prominent landmark in Ellesmere Port is this concrete water tower at the Bridgewater paper mill site. The mill is long gone but the tower remains due to the aerials attached to it.

Today it is hard to imagine that this spot was once a bustling wharf from which coal, clay and bricks were exported in large quantities. All that now remains are these timbers that formed part of the quay. A quay developed at Lower, or King's Ferry on the River Dee, for the shipment of coal from about 1740 when the Mancot Tramway was built to link Big Mancot Colliery with the Dee at Mancot Mark. Around 1793 this was replaced by an iron plateway. Aston Quay, as it came to be known, expanded further following the construction of a second tramway, or in fact a system of tramways, which extended from Pentrobin Colliery, Buckley. The various sections of the tramway had different names but are generally referred to as the Aston Tramroad. The south section was built by Rigby, the Hawarden Ironmaster, and Hancock, the Buckley brick manufacturer, after the formation of a partnership in 1792. The lower 1¼ miles was replaced by an iron plateway around 1799, which served a number of businesses including Lane End brickworks at Buckley and Aston Hall Colliery. The plateway was eventually replaced by the standard gauge Aston Hall Colliery Railway. All that now remains are a few of the timbers that formed part of the quay.

The grain silos at berth 27 of the inner harbour at Port Adelaide can supply wheat and barley to the ship loaders at up to 700 tonnes per hour. Viterra also has a newer deep water terminal in the outer harbour.

The grain silos at berth 27 of the inner harbour at Port Adelaide can supply wheat and barley to the ship loaders at up to 700 tonnes per hour. Viterra also has a newer deep water terminal in the outer harbour.

Distant industry beckons on arrival at the Dunkerque ferry terminal. Most obvious is the oil refinery, but the plume of steam indicates the coking plant at the steelworks and the orangey coloured buildings left of centres are the Kerneos aluminium silicates plant.