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Top Hat ceremony welcomes crew of first "salty"

Ship is loading wheat for delivery to Morocco

THUNDER BAY -- The M.V. Federal Bering officially opened ocean-going traffic for the 2018 navigation season on Tuesday at Canada's farthest inland port.

Thunder Bay port and civic officials welcomed Captain Philips Kuruvilla and Chief Engineer Mario Peter Andrades with the port's traditional Top Hat ceremony.

Federal Bering, a 200-metre ocean carrier fitted for the Great Lakes, was commissioned in 2015 and is owned by Fednav, which is Canada's largest international dry-bulk ocean transportation group.

She will load 21,000 metric tonnes of wheat before embarking on a 7,800-kilometre journey to her destination port of Casablanca, Morocco.

 

 




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