Captain Piotr Szczesniak, grasp of the Polsteam laker Isadora, was offered with the Ports of Indiana Steel Stein, marking the ship’s arrival at Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor as the primary of the 2023 worldwide transport season
Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor opened the 2023 worldwide transport season April 11 with the arrival of Polsteam’s Isadora, a bulk provider coming from Ijmuiden, Netherlands, by way of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes. To commemorate the primary ocean vessel of the yr, the ship’s grasp, Captain Piotr Szczesniak, was offered with the Ports of Indiana Steel Stein, a long-running custom on the port that commemorates Northwest Indiana’s identification as “The Steel Capital of North America.” The Ports of Indiana is acknowledged as one of many prime metal ports within the nation for dealing with metal and metal-related merchandise and Isadora arrived on the port with a cargo of metal coils.
“We look forward to the first ocean vessel in Burns Harbor every year as a sign that spring is coming and our port’s international connection to the world is now open,” stated port director Ryan McCoy. “Our unique deep-water terminal has tremendous capabilities for shipping everything from grain to steel to salt to wind component cargoes on ocean vessels to and from the Heartland of America and global markets.”
Owned and operated by Polsteam and inbuilt 1999, the Cyprus-flagged Isadora picked up its metal cargo within the Netherlands, stopping in Cleveland first, previous to arriving on the Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor. The journey took about two weeks. Workers from the International Longshoremen’s Association and International Union of Operating Engineers will unload greater than 8,350 tons of metal coils on the port earlier than Captain Piotr Szczesniak and his 21 crew members proceed to Milwaukee to discharge the ship’s remaining cargo.
The St. Lawrence Seaway opened its locks to ocean vessels for the sixty fifth worldwide transport season on March 22 after closing in late December. The Seaway closes for upkeep within the winter, however the Ports of Indiana is open year-round dealing with cargoes by river barges, lake vessels, trains and vans. The port dealt with 3.45 million tons of cargo in 2022, its highest annual cargo complete because it started operation in 1970.
