{"id":18029,"date":"2012-02-15T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18029"},"modified":"2012-11-14T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:17:40","slug":"bahamas-ships-sand-to-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/bahamas-ships-sand-to-bermuda","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Ships Sand To Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18031\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18031\" title=\"ubc-moin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ubc-moin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ubc-moin.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ubc-moin-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Building materal: The bulk carrier UBC Moin is expected to drop off 7,600 tons of sand for the new hospital later this week. Photo by Charles Leeuwenburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 7,000 tons of sand will be tipped on to Penno\u2019s Wharf later this week.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk carrier UBC Moin is bringing the material in from the Bahamas for the hospital project.<\/p>\n<p>The ship is due to arrive in St George\u2019s on Friday, a couple of days behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The ship has two on-board crane buckets, which will unload 7,600 tons of sand on to the dockside.<\/p>\n<p>The sand will then be transferred on to trucks and transported to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The UBC Moin was built in 2009 and is flagged in Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n<p>She is 108 metres long and is small enough to be able to negotiate Town Cut.<\/p>\n<p>This week sees the return of the Somers Isles to our shores.<\/p>\n<p>The container ship has been in dry dock undergoing routine repair and maintenance work in Jacksonville since the end of last month.<\/p>\n<p>Bad weather out at sea put her arrival back nearly 12 hours this week but she pulled into Hamilton yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>She is now scheduled to head back to Florida slightly later than planned this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Finally the Bermuda Islander gets into the capital first thing tomorrow, and will leave on Friday morning as per usual.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Simon Jones<br \/>\nBermuda Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7,000 tons of sand is being shipped from the Bahamas to Bermuda for a hospital project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,24,59,128,101],"class_list":["post-18029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-caribbean-2","tag-construction","tag-islands","tag-shipping","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}