tarboat's photos with the keyword: eastham

Maltese registered tanker Essex Star arriving at Eastham Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal en route to Stanlow refinery where it will load oil products for Rotterdam.

A wharf on the Manchester Ship Canal not far from Eastham with the names of many of the ships that tied there painted on the walls by their crew.

Tanks at the oil refinery operated by Eastham Refinery Limited, a joint operation between Nynas and Shell. The site operates a distillation unit established in 1966 and designed to run on heavy naphthenic crude. In 1989 the unit was expanded to provide a capacity of 1.2m tonnes per year. The main product is bitumen, both penetration and blown grades, and a range of distillates is also produced. These find outlets as gas oil, marine diesel, lubricating base stocks and in a broad spectrum of process industries. A separate blown bitumen unit completed in early 1990 provides additional capacity. It is the largest producer of bitumen in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year.

2007 built oil/chemical tanker Sten Poseidon attended by tug MSC Victory with MSC Viking at the stern is leaving the locks at Eastham on the Manchester Ship Canal bound for Stanlow.