It was a gray, gloomy morning Thursday when I was on my run through the Empire - Fulton Ferry State Park in
DUMBO and saw, with my peripheral vision, something big and reddish-orange overtaking me off to my right. It was
Balder, a self-unloading bulk cargo ship (in that respect an oceangoing version of the Great Lakes ships like
Calumet that were the subject of an
earlier post) belonging to the Norwegian Torvald-Klaveness shipping group, named for the
Norse God of "light, joy, purity, beauty, innocence, and reconciliation", but flying the flag of the Marshall Islands and, according to
this article, trading mostly among the east coast of the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean and South America. Below is a closer view of
Balder's stern, showing the elaborate conveyor equipment used to handle cargoes like gypsum, salt and sand.
It was a gray, gloomy morning Thursday when I was on my run through the Empire - Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO and saw, with my peripheral vision, something big and reddish-orange overtaking me off to my right. It was Balder, a self-unloading bulk cargo ship (in that respect an oceangoing version of the Great Lakes ships like Calumet that were the subject of an earlier post) belonging to the Norwegian Torvald-Klaveness shipping group, named for the Norse God of "light, joy, purity, beauty, innocence, and reconciliation", but flying the flag of the Marshall Islands and, according to this article, trading mostly among the east coast of the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean and South America. Below is a closer view of Balder's stern, showing the elaborate conveyor equipment used to handle cargoes like gypsum, salt and sand.
Impressive ship! I have never seen one like that!
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