"Overseas Long Beach" Petroleum Chemical Tanker entering the Burrard Bay Inlet North Vancouver City British Columbia Canada
The recently built product tanker Overseas Long Beach is now working on charter in the Gulf of Mexico calling on Texas ports. She was christened June 16 at Aker Philadelphia Shipyard and is chartered to OSG, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. The Overseas Long Beach is a Veteran Class MT-46 tanker and the second ship of an initial 10-tanker order built at the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard. Her sister ship, the Overseas Houston, was delivered in February 2007. These Jones Act tanker ships are crewed by American mariners from the Seafarers International Union of North America (SIU) . Specifications Veteran Class MT-46 tanker Protected from the open ocean, the calm waters of Burrard Inlet form Vancouver's primary port area, an excellent one for large oceangoing ships. While some of the shoreline is residential and commercial, much is port-industrial, including railyards, terminals for container and bulk cargo ships, grain elevators, and (towards the eastern end) oil refineries. Freighters waiting to load or discharge cargoes in the inlet often anchor in English Bay, which lies south of the mouth of the inlet and is separated from it by Vancouver's downtown peninsula and Stanley Park. On the main inlet, a few park areas remain forested as they were centuries ago, but the steep slopes of Indian Arm are so impassable that most have seen no development, despite the proximity of such a major city. Only in 2003 was a rough wilderness hiking trail around the whole of Indian Arm completed, and it was the work of one man over many years. From Point Atkinson and Point Grey on the west to Port Moody in the east, the inlet is about 25 km (16 mi) long; Indian Arm extends about 20 km (12 mi) north. Settlements on the shores of Burrard Inlet include Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, and Port Moody. Three bridges, the First Narrows Bridge (Lions' Gate Bridge) (built in the 1930s), the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing (1960) and the CNR railway Bridge.
Size: 5620px × 3733px
Location: Burrard Bay Inlet Noth Vancouver City Canada
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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