Fare thee well oh Dutchy.

 May you find happiness and much freight back where you belong.



By all accounts this is the last we will see of the Dutch Runner. I doubt if anyone on the Labrdor is sorry to see her go. A shortened short season as it was a very controversial  and contentious one.

Conflicting accounts of who did what to whom seem to be emerging. The government says one thing and a crew member says another. Wonder what the odds are it will end up in court.

Word at the dock is that the ship will head to Cartwright when she is finished business here and unload everything on board. She then heads to an Island port of call before heading to Montreal.

While writing this I had a call from CBC St.. John's, I just did a short interview for their morning show news on the pull out/or other, of "the Dutch".

Any way back to the Dutch and freight. On board where 5 very large tanker trucks. They are empty now after being offloaded at Hopedale. Seems the tankers come in all the way from Quebec, loaded on a freight boat, taken to Hopedale and unloaded to the tank farm there then return to whence they came. Seems an odd and expensive way to supply fuel to the coast.