Hi, Just to add to Peter's explanation-these are in fact Delivery Voyage (not Void) Strengthenings. These were needed since she is designed to withstand wave loads on the Great Lakes, but was crossing Pacific last month - you can surely expect 'little' worse weather during such transit. DVS will be removed in the comming months. The info on trim is misleading - the limit was to have at least 4,5 draft at bow, this means noticable trim aft to have the propeller submerged. She is of gearless type, three more sisters will be build, plus 4 more with self unloading gears. Finally, it is worth noting that although built in CHina the design and engineering was done in Finland and Poland by Deltamarin Ltd.

Looking at other's photos she appears to be slightly hogging! Maybe this is only a perception or a photographic lens effect!
And yes Magogman on Maritime Press old clipping they show her with the unloader boom.

Man, that is one ugly boat. Even uglier than the new CSL boats...

Does anyone know if this ship is going to be outfitted with a self unloading boom or is it going to remain a "straight decker"?

Well done Jean. I checked your Flickr photo's. Very impressive. This new ship captured in crappy weather and truthfully you admit it had to be photoshopped to make it clear.

Brilliant catch. Hopefully the very first of many more of this interesting vessel(Better weather next time hopefully).

All the best,
tvtech

As I understand, those deck stiffeners are of some Г profile, right?

And thank you shipspotting friends for your appreciative comments! I do not usually go up there in bad light. But nevertheless for this ship it was worth all the effort and also the best of the day to photoshop enhance the three photos on my Flickr album.

The Canadian Shipyards in my early years we had a protected market for those "seaway-max " lakers". There would have been " wars" on the political front if those ship were to be imported. Besides political compromises technical compromises are now usually done to built imported seagoing maximum seaway size bulkers. The nature of those adaptations are not completely known to me. But I notice here there doesn't seems to be compromises. Except may be the long temporary girders on the deck. Also likely very many technological structural implementations, beginning with steel composition, structural computer modelling etc.

Sharpness beeing the objective with ships proceeding in low lights! The old cantilever Quebec Bridge is very stable. That excepts when a train comes by or in very windy weather as of this photo. It is to my idea one of the best platform for ship aerial photo one could find. I operate with a sturdy tripod, mirror lockup, and a remote usually with the extremely versatile sigma 50-500. Not costly when bought used.
Here for the rather low lights I used Iso 400, with a 2.8f 70-200 lens.

From the Québec Bridge. Jean had to walk the distance from shore to the middle portion of the bridge in the snow to take this unique photo.

Question remains ..where is the picture taken?

Thank you,Peter for the explanations. Somebody somehow removed my quetion from the list of comments...

Are the deck stiffeners temporary for the delivery passage only?

Hi,
these ships have many hatchopening but not so many cargoholds. I think this one has 5 cargoholds and 20 hatches. They need to have somewhere something to keep the vessel stable. And in this instance the yard placed the stiffener on deck.

Many thanks for posting this photo and for the work you did on it. First photo I have seen of her.

Great shot Jean! Glad to see her arrive from China and take on her first cargo. Still hard to believe a newly built straightdecker. Looks like you battled the snow and cold for this - thanks for sharing!