There is no deep water at the coast, so concentrate is lightered out to vessels anchored well offshore. A port with no harbour, so the ships stay offshore
Lightering, the shipping window, and the barges.
There is no deep water at the coast, so concentrate is lightered out to vessels anchored well offshore. A port with no harbour, so the ships stay offshore
2 pieces in this section
There is no deep water at the coast, so concentrate is lightered out to vessels anchored well offshore.
Ice closes the coast for most of the year, so a year's production moves in one short open-water window.
Where this section sits: the Wulik drainage from the De Long Mountains to the Chukchi Sea.
Geometry: project map kit
Elsewhere on the river