The BBC HOUSTON has successfully completed her first passages through the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System into Lake Erie and back, marking the premiere for this vessel class which is dubbed “LakerMax”.
After having arrived at Montreal in late April, a routine inspection had been conducted by the Seaway Authority, giving the vessel clearance to enter the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System.
Having proceeded to the first lock in the system, the St. Lambert Lock in Montreal, the BBC HOUSTON and her Captain Andrei Kostrov were welcomed by a small committee consisting of Ricardo D’Amore as the representative of The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, Ross Fletcher, BBC Chartering’s Owners Representative in Canada, and Lou Holmes and Jennifer Holmes, both from Holmes Maritime, the ship’s agent in Canada.
While the vessel was sluiced in the St Lambert lock, plaques commemorating the event were handed over to the Seaway authority and the vessel in a small ceremony. Ultimate destination of the BBC HOUSTON was Erie in Pennsylvania, where the vessel discharged a full shipload of windmill blades.
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