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Accident at Delta Port
METRO VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Liza Yuzda | Email news tips to liza@cknw.com
12/7/2012

Westshore Industries at Delta Port dealing with a mess this morning after a freighter ran into one of their ship berths.


Ray Dykes with Westshore says the large ship collided with a trestle leading into one of the two deep sea berths, removing a large portion of it.


He says the area hit carrys a conveyor belt with coal,  and some coal may have hit the water...
  
"Well the berth was loading at the time so when it was cut asunder there would have been a tiny bit of coal going in.  It stopped - it's got emergency braking systems on it"

Dykes says no one was injured and he beleives there was no damage to the ship.


He says the first priority is restoring power to the birth in order to secure the coal supplying conveyor.


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  1. commonsense posted on 12/07/2012 12:21 PM
    Is that image above the current damage with that middle portion missing or just to give us an idea of what the port is?
    1. JanelleJ posted on 12/07/2012 03:06 PM
      @commonsense My Uncle works there, and yes the middle portion is missing from this mornings freighter accident.

      Normally that piece would be complete with coal running along the belt the whole length of it.

      Looks like it will take a long time to repair, as that is one of the major belts, and working in that ocean area will not be easy, because of the depth.
  2. insite posted on 12/07/2012 12:41 PM
    The Westshore Terminal could not be located in a more open area. Imagine what an oil-exporting terminal could look like after a freighter or whatever slices the oil pipe (vs, a coal conveyor). There would be a nice oil slick spreading out and under the water at the scene. This is the third shipping incident off our coast in the last month. Maybe, we also need a world-class incident/accident prevention system before we worry about a world-class spill response? This kind of accident at an oil-exporting terminal would wipe out the containment booms placed to deal with incidental spills.
  3. RonE_1902 posted on 12/07/2012 01:09 PM
    Stop consuming items that require coal and the demand for coal will also cease.

    The environmental whiners as I see it pick and choose these issues.
    1. opq posted on 12/07/2012 07:32 PM
      @RonE_1902 While we're at it we can adopt the San Francisco way of sniffing our own farts, just to make sure we're zero emissions.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9jhGiIAFM
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