Today, a perennial question that comes up now and again: where actually is the Columbia River Bar? It opens the door to an interesting and complex answer about how the river works and influences all our lives here.
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Today we’ll see who’s on the river and take a closer look at a cargo that’s often delivered to Longview: industrial salt.
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Today, an answer to a listener question about the Vigorous dry dock at the Swan Island shipyard in Portland. It’s an engineering marvel, and the largest floating drydock in North America. We’ll take a closer look.
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A bit about today’s ships: berths, cargo, anchorages – among the reasons ships come here to the Columbia River
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Two things today: first, a look at preliminary info about this year’s Rose Festival Fleet of visiting military ships due here in June on the river. And, why was there a big ocean-going cruise ship heading upriver recently?
We’ll talk about all of that, and a look at marine weather and ship traffic for today.
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Today we have an unusual cargo ship on the river: a self loader called the CSL Tecumseh. She’s bringing Gypsum to Rainier. What makes her unusual is she has all the gear she needs to load and unload her own cargo at the dock. We’ll talk about why that’s important.
Image courtesy Canadian Steamship Lines.
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