Page 8. MAINE COASTAL NEWS May 2011 On Tuesday, April 19th
Waterfront News EASTPORT PORT AUTHORITY WELCOMES 1,000TH VESSEL
, CEC MIRAGE
called on the Port of Eastport. This was the 1,000th vessel to call on the Port since the creation of the Eastport Port Authority. To celebrate, the Port Authority held a reception at Estes Head in the Federal Marine Terminal office on Tuesday, April 19th
at 11:00 AM.
Eastport has had 1000 commercial or government ships enter the port since MV RAVENSWOOD arrived in 1981. These ships have flown the flags of more than 43 different countries.
The crews came from more than 64 coun- tries and a total of at least 22,961 mariners visited Eastport during the past 30 years. The ships included freighters, LASH ships, bulk carriers, RO-RO (Roll on – Roll off) ships, heavy lift ships, 26 U.S. Navy vessels, two USCG ships, one Canadian Coast Guard Ship, four passenger vessels, dock ships, and several large tug and barges. The main export cargo has been over 4,000,000 tons of processed wood pulp, 7,000 cows in special locally built and maintained containers, newsprint rolls, granite blocks from Maine and Vermont, prefabricated house sections, Maine built yachts, vehicles including school buses for Saudi Arabia, mining equipment, peat moss in bulk, and machinery.
The port has imported complete power plants (including the Deblois and Jonesboro bio-mass plants), windmill blades, Swedish wood pulp, yachts, and military vehicles. The port has brought tremendous em- ployment to the Woodland pulp mill person- nel, the Longshoremen and women, steve- dores, checkers, port security guards, line
handlers, Port Authority administration per- sonnel, Eastport police, truckers, tug crews, pilot boat crews, line boat crew, ship pilots, cargo and ship surveyors, repair contractors, construction crews, U.S. Customs and Bor- der Protection crews, USDA inspectors, US Coast Guard Marine Inspectors, Canadian Vessel Traffic Services personnel, local res- taurants, grocery stores, shops, repair yards, area gas and diesel stations, cowboys and every convenience store in Eastern Maine. Since it’s inception in 1977, the Eastport Port Authority has continued a comprehen- sive approach to continued growth in the marine industry. Major facility expansion and investment at the Estes Head Pier under the administration of Governor Angus S. King, Jr. allowed the Eastport Port Authority to enter into a series of record breaking years in cargo operations. As a result the Port of Eastport is seen as one of the fastest growing cargo ports in all of New England. The port continues its expansion con- struction with a $8,000,000 project to handle bulk cargos by conveyor including Maine wood chips.
The port plans in 2011 on shipping over 400,000 MT of wood pulp, 20,000 cows, and perhaps its first load of wood chips. Eastport is the closest US port to all of Europe. Over the past 30 years the Port of Eastport has been the embarkation point for ships and cargo headed for Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Cyprus, Lebanon, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Algeria, Egypt, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, and Spain.
Over the past 30 years since the first ship
The Bahama cargo ship CEC MIRAGE, the 1000th ship to visit Port of Eastport
arrived under the Eastport Port Authority over 200 local jobs have benefited the people of Eastport and the Washington County re- gion. They have included 2 pilots running 2 pilot boat crewmen, 5 tugboat crewmen, one line boat crew, 60 longshoremen, 3 security guards, 30 truckers, 5 stevedores, 2 agents, 6 port directors, harbor masters and secretarial staff.
Investment over the years is significant with over 35 million spent in construction of piers, warehouse, and yards. In addition the operation of the Port has generated at least another 90 million over 30 years in salaries, manufacturing wood pulp, storage, ship op- erations, trucking, etc.
Since 1981 The Port of Eastport has had 6 Port Directors: Jim Doyle, Brian Nutter, Jonathon Daniels, Bud Finch (acting), John Sullivan (acting) and Christopher Gardner. Federal Marine Terminals has had two
directors in the past 30 years – Bob Wallace and Skip Rogers, both graduates of Maine Maritime Academy (MMA).
Over the same time period the Port of Eastport has been served by seven pilots that bring the large ships to port from the open sea: Captains William Abbott, Gill Hall, Moody, Gray, Sulin, Robert Peacock, Morrison. All of them graduates of MMA. The Port of Eastport has had tremen- dous on-going support and direct involve- ment by Governor John R. “Jock” McKernan, Jr., Governor Angus S. King, Jr., Governor John E. Baldacci, Governor Paul Lepage, Senator Olympia Snowe, Senator Susan Collins, Senator George Mitchell, Senator William Cohen, Congressman Mike Michaud, Maine Senate President Kevin Raye, State Representative Harry Vose, State Representative Buster Townsend and State Representative David Burns.
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