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FOR Tours Port Freeport
Posted on Mar 1st, 2017
Friends of the River San Bernard gathered outside Port Freeport's administrative building waiting to tour the port facilities.
A group of twenty-four Friends of the River San Bernard toured Port Freeport on Wednesday,March 1, 2017. They were welcomed by Phyllis Saathoff, Executive Director/CEO, Dianna Kile, Director External/Government Affairs, and Ravi Singhania, Port Commissioner. Tour guide was Shane Pirtle, Port Commissioner who led the the informative drive-thru tour giving out plenty of Port facts and figures.
The FOR group points to the Alliance St. Louis docked at Port Freeport, a ship that is used to carry wheeled cargo.
The ship, known as a RORO, an acronym for roll-on/roll-off, has the vehicles loaded and unloaded using the built-in ramp on the stern that lowers allowing the vehicles to be driven on or off. Built in 2005, the mammoth 21,080 ton Alliance St Louis is operated by Höegh Autoliners and owned by Alliance Navigation.
Port Freport exports GM to the Middle East, imports Buicks from Korea and imports "high and heavy" (cargo types that have unusual height and weight requirements) from Japan and Korea. Read more about the port.
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