PORTLAND – The city has a new – but temporary – addition to its skyline.
A tug pulling a barge that’s carrying part of a new processing plant from Texas to Newfoundland is tied up at the Maine State Pier to ride out rough weather at sea. The metal structure is about eight stories tall.
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Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. This eight-story-tall metal structure aboard a barge is part of a processing plant headed to Newfoundland. It came to Portland to avoid rough weather at sea.
City officials said the operator of the tug/barge hasn’t said how long it will remain tied up at the pier. They said Portland charges $2.10 a foot – horizontal, not vertical – per day for vessels that tie up at the city-owned pier.
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