Ship builder is tongue-twister

AS REPORTED in The Courier last week, Montrose Port Authority commissioned its latest quayside upgrade with the arrival of the Danishowned anchor handling vessel Maersk Lifter, emails a shipping source in Montrose.

“Registered at the northern Danish port of Skagen, the Maersk Lifter is an example of the larger size of this type of offshore vessel currently at work for the North Sea oil and gas industry,” he says. “She was built at Stralsund on Germany’s Baltic coast in the former East Germany in 2009.

“She berthed on October 11 and was followed on the berth two days later by the first cargo ship to use the new facility. The second arrival was the general cargo ship Carolin G with a bulk cargo of maize which was discharged in under two days. She was completed in the Netherlands in 2008 by Damen Shipyards.

“Although registered at St John’s and flagged in Antigua and Barbuda, she is Germanowned and managed at HarenEms by Gerdes Reederi.

“Not alongside on the new berth, a subsequent arrival created somewhat more than a

Dingbats passing interest. The Dutch freighter Myrte, home port Papendrecht, was built in China in 2008 by Zhejiang Hongxin Shipbuilding, Taizhou Zhejiang – pronunciation was much easier in the days of ‘Caledon, Dundee’!”, comments my source.

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