by hausen » April 21, 2022, 2:48 pm
This is a relatively normal time for salt unloads at the particular dock John D. Leitch is visiting, especially given what it appears the John D. Leitch is doing, which is different than just dumping the entire load of salt into a stockpile on the ground as fast as possible. That 'fast dump' is often how ships unload at other salt receiving docks in the Twin Ports and elsewhere on the Great Lakes/Seaway, and sometimes ships even do the 'fast dump' at Compass Minerals in Duluth, but that does not appear to be what John D. Leitch is doing at present:
Sometimes when ships bring salt to Compass Minerals in Duluth, the facility has the ship unload directly into several different specific receiving points on or next to their various buildings over the course of the delivery. Several of those receiving points seem to be connected directly to salt processing / packaging lines; the ship may be intentionally unloading at slower speeds than maximum in order to feed salt into that processing machinery at an appropriate rate. It's also possible that the grade or type of salt that is involved with this more elaborate unloading process handles differently than salt that's just dumped quickly into one big stockpile; perhaps the salt John D. Leitch is delivering is stickier / more stubborn and that's part of or the full reason behind the longer unload time.
This is a relatively normal time for salt unloads at the particular dock [i]John D. Leitch[/i] is visiting, especially given what it appears the John D. Leitch is doing, which is different than just dumping the entire load of salt into a stockpile on the ground as fast as possible. That 'fast dump' is often how ships unload at other salt receiving docks in the Twin Ports and elsewhere on the Great Lakes/Seaway, and sometimes ships even do the 'fast dump' at Compass Minerals in Duluth, but that does not appear to be what [i]John D. Leitch[/i] is doing at present:
Sometimes when ships bring salt to Compass Minerals in Duluth, the facility has the ship unload directly into several different specific receiving points on or next to their various buildings over the course of the delivery. Several of those receiving points seem to be connected directly to salt processing / packaging lines; the ship may be intentionally unloading at slower speeds than maximum in order to feed salt into that processing machinery at an appropriate rate. It's also possible that the grade or type of salt that is involved with this more elaborate unloading process handles differently than salt that's just dumped quickly into one big stockpile; perhaps the salt [i]John D. Leitch[/i] is delivering is stickier / more stubborn and that's part of or the full reason behind the longer unload time.