St. Lawrence Seaway

I'm not familiar with Canadian Rum at all. I did find three rum distilleries in Canada but all were East of this location I think and I couldn't find any of their brands in Germany. Guess we'll wait for Rodger to enlighten us. Or Ralph should know.

Bernd1972 would be best one to answer, as Flensburg is THE Rum town in Germany . There is much Rum imported into Germany but in barrels or in 20 ft liquid cargo containers but a complete tanker full of Rum ?

So, is Cuxhaven in Ontario? Confused minds want to know...lol

I guess I haven´t too much to contribute concerning canadian rum in Germany. Here in Flensburg ( Germany´s Rum Capital) are not too many destillers left, back in the old days there were about 150 destilleries. Haven´t heard of canadian rum destillers beeing offered here so far, even though I know that Lunenburg, Nova Scotia is probably another unknown rum capital on this planet. Over here most imported rum is from the Caribbean, Cuba, some more exclusive qualities from Barbados and the smaller islands. But canadian rum sold in Germany? I´d be curious to learn more about that.

The grounded ship Jo Spirit mentioned above with destination Cuxhaven, Germany is indeed going to Cuxhaven regulary.



This picture was taken in Cuxhaven, a harbour town at the mouth of the Elbe River, 60 NM northwest of Hamburg. The Norwegian product tanker (short sea shipping size, 6.200 tdw) is transporting denatured or sometimes called industrial alcohol (C2H5OH, sorry rc, not really drinkable) for the production of bio fuel or other chemical processes but not Rum.

Imagine, 6.200 tons of drinkable full prove fine Canadian Rum inbound northern Europe loaded in a tanker!!!! The combined Custom Authorities of Northern Europe would go on highest alert , I would say, go nuts. Think about the amount of alcohol tax sloshing around in these tanks.

Diverting a Rum loaded ship like this to Norway, could even lead to a state crisis. Norseman will remember, what happened in his country, when they found 800 Liters of Rum in a potable water tank of a Norwegian Submarine in Norway, (actually this submarine had been in a yard for refit in Cuxhaven before) what a small world.

Sad but true!

Well, in Norway that amount would be sufficient to keep half the adult population completely drunken for 3-4 days, with headache for the rest of the week.

We are also transporting that kind of cargo from ime to time. Dangerous like dynamite. They got pretty lucky during on the St. Lawrence Seaway with that grounding. The smallest leak, a little spark and this full prove denaturated alcohol explodes faster than rocket fuel. And even more dangerous, it burns with invisible flames. Very dangerous for the fire fighters. And on top of all that difficulties some of that stuff needs very elaborate (and expensive) inert gase procedures, as the normal exhaust gases may react with the alcohol and/or contaminate the cargo fluid.

But the biggest load of (Jamaica) Rum we have ever transported, was in one of those:


An the ship was escorted by custom patrol boats virtually upon entering German waters .

Reminds me of the legendary story about the Mary Celeste...

Hargrave 31m "Sassy"


Heavy!

San Lorenzo 46m "PICK UP"

Westport 49m "Seaquest"

One expensive ride to Montreal

Feadship 60m "ROCK.IT"