The cold complicates the operations to put it afloat a barge that ran aground

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Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:47

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Wednesday, 3 January, 2018 21:49

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A part of the cargo of aluminum ingot is transported by a barge that was stranded in the lake Saint-Pierre on the 25th of December will have to be discharged to get the boat afloat. However, the cold night to the operations.

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The company that is the owner of the”Lark Spirit,” the firm’s ontario McKeil Marine, has tried to free the boat of sludge from the lake Saint-Pierre, but without success. The company will have to resolve to “unload the cargo from the barge to reduce the total weight of about 13 000 tonnes,” explained the spokesperson of the company, Matthew Kendrick.

McKeil Marine is unknown, however, when she will proceed, as the difficult weather conditions and the cold weather complicates things.

Mother nature would also be responsible for the accident of December 25 last. This morning, a snow storm was hindering the visibility on the lake. Even the experience on the river of the captains of the Corporation des pilotes du Saint-Laurent central, which had taken control of the boat, as is always the case between Quebec and Montreal, would not have sufficed.

Fortunately, there were no injuries, nor damage to the environment. This is what is done to confirm the mayor of Louiseville, Yvon Deshaies. “I asked, “is it dangerous? Is this something that’s going down there?” They told me “no problem””, he recounted.

The operation that will be necessary to refloat the barge is reminiscent of the story of the ship “Sabrina”, which failed at Trois-Rivières in march 2008. The rescue operation of the boat had required much effort.