American century

[Guest]

They are de-mucking her tanks. They must have turned her around so the vac trucks could access the starboard tanks. This is usually done immediately before winter layup or drydocking so the timing is a bit unusual.

[Duluth Guest]

There appears to be a significant amount of service trucks and personnel at work on American Century, so whatever is going on over there appears to be related to some kind of port services -type visit (i.e. repairs, mechanical work, cleanup, etc.)

HarborLookout has the ship slated to get underway again some time around the first week of November; that would also indicate that this isn’t an early layup.

[Guest]

I heard for tank cleaning and repairs

[Mn bob]

The American century has been at the lakehead pipeline dock for 4 days now, the ship was pulled into the slip bow first and when I went by today the ship had turned around and is now backed into the slip. Does anyone know what’s going on with the ship and why they turned it around in the slip? Is it in for repairs or early layup?