Containers From Cleveland... (PEYTON LYN C)

Container ship PEYTON LYN C from Antwerp, Belgium

This vessel caught my attention because I couldn't recall the last time I'd seen shipping containers on a Seaway ship...

Apparently, there was a previous effort (and experiment) to clear backlogged containers from yards, reasoning that Highway H2O is cheaper than transport truck or train.


This run seems to mirror that experiment (or simply be a continuation of it).

It could also lead to huge container ships (at ports like Halifax, for example) being offloaded onto smaller freighters to bring goods inland (to ports like Montreal). 

Here she is downbound, heading to Montreal.

I first saw the PEYTON LYN C upbound en route to Cleveland, Ohio. At the time, the deck was stacked with approximately 50 containers (that I could see).

It looked as if the load had already been partially unloaded (she had stopped in Valleyfield, Quebec).

This time, she appeared to have even more visible containers on her deck, possibly empty?

The ship is riding high out of the water, suggesting a relatively light load.















Not quite sure why some of these ocean vessels have such tall, narrow superstructures. Also noticed there's not really a "traditional" stylized smokestack, just a simple exhaust pipe.

It appears as if this is the third Seaway trip for this ocean-bound cargo ship.

The vessel transited the Seaway in September and October 2021, taking containers to Cleveland, and then a return trip to Europe with shipping containers.


She was travelling slower than I'd ever seen a vessel travel down the Seaway...

Potentially being cautious over some of the treacherous zig-zags in the channel? Or simply delaying her arrival, waiting for another vessel to clear the Locks downriver?