Bulk Freighter Ships

Giant Slotta Departs Baltimore November 25, 2018

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At 289x45m (948×147.6ft) this bulk freighter truly is a giant. She was built in 2006 by Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Shanghai. It is hard to determine who really owns this ship since she shows up in a few places but the one that seems to me to be the most likely is SwissMarine. She appears on their fleet list which has quite a lot of ships. In the video below of her evening departure you will see her passing the inbound bulker Ocean Aphrodite in the first scene before she heads under the Key bridge and out onto Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. For best results watch in FULL SCREEN. You may need to watch for 20+ seconds before full resolution kicks in.


You can watch a longer video of all the shipping activity I saw this day here.
8117-1 Bulk Freighter Giant Slotta
Bulk Freighter Giant Slotta Passing Under Key Bridge

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