Large Machinery Shipped on Detroit River

[Awfavre]

Dang, bigtreble, where’d you take that shot? It looks just like the view from my office in the Cadillac Tower. For a minute there, I wondered how you’d gotten one of my pix.


I forgot to mention the barge is the CBC 4507.

[mjs]

It's going to modernization of BP's Whiting facility to support new capabilities and improved environmental performance.
They've been working on it since May 2008. The website designer says there's an even larger one coming next month.

http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarti...tentId=7051633
http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newsthu...thumbs_833.htm
http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newsthu...thumbs_830.htm

[detmich]

Oil refinery? probably BP Whiting in East Chicago.

Steel Refinery could be any number of them.

[mjs]

I looked it up because I thought it might be for one of the steel mills and I was wondering who would be accepting delivery when demand is so low that half the US steel plants are shut down.