Canada’s first diesel-electric ‘laker’ has been departed China en route to Halifax where it is set to start operations for Canada Steamship Lines and Quebec-based salt mining company Windsor Salt..
New Self-Unloading Vessel Begins Construction After Years of Planning
Better Environmental Equipment to Protect Sensitive Area
CANADA – To most people salt means only one thing, its use as a culinary essential, however to the icy provinces of the far north its use is paramount in keeping the roadways safe during the winter season across Eastern Canada.
K+S Windsor Salt supplies every type of its product, even including the fashionable Himalayan pink salt, but has contracts to deliver de-icing salt from its Mines Seleine salt mine in the Magdalen Islands to stockpiles in Montreal, Quebec City, and other destinations in the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland.
CSL, Windsor Salt join forces to build eco-friendly self-unloader February 15, 2021, by Naida Hakirevic
Canadian shipping company Canada Steam Ship Lines (CSL) and compatriot salt manufacturer K+S Windsor Salt Ltd. (Windsor Salt) have entered into a strategic partnership to build a new, eco-friendly self-unloading ship.
The 26,000 dwt newbuild is intended for operation in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Great Lakes region.
The keel laying ceremony for the self-unloader was held at Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangyin, China, on 29 January 2021. The vessel is expected to commence operations in the Magdalen Islands at the start of the 2022 navigation season.
The keel-laying ceremony for the new Windsor Salt-CSL new ship. Image by CNW Group/The CSL Group Inc.