CARDIFF - Sun 29th January 2012

On 26th  Bro Distributor arrived from Milford Haven with a cargo of oil products, returning there on 27th.
Container ship Charlotte Borchard arrived from Leixoes on 27th and sailed the same day for Liverpool.
On 29th we had 2 arrivals and 1 departure.


Name                                   Flag                 Year      Tonnage       LOA       Beam
PETERSBURG                   Antigua             2001        3667dwt        97          13

Petersburg

Photographed  arriving at Cardiff on 17th December 2015

Petersburg a fairly typical looking Russian built vessel owned by Gerhard Wessels.  She had arrived from Gemlik (Turkey) on 26th  and is seen here departing in ballast for Ijmuiden.



WILHELMINE ESSBERGER   Marshall Is   2005     8657dwt        115          19

Wilhelmine Essberger

One of John T Essbergers fleet of chemical tankers is seen arriving from Lavera (Spain).  Being assisted by the tug HT Scimitar.  She sailed on 30th bound for Antwerp.

BONACIEUX                     Gibraltar            2010       3300dwt       86           12

Bonacieux

Arriving from Bilbao, the local VTS indicates that she's carrying a cargo of animal feed!!.  The deck cargo look suspiciously like wind turbine blades, she could have animal feed in the hold but looks to be sitting quite high in the water to be fully loaded.  I'll be in work when she's due to sail for Emden on 1st Feb so won't know if she still has the cargo on deck when she leaves.