OIL BUNKERING AND OIL HANDLING

Waterfront oil handling facilities in Baltimore harbor have been adapted to meet the needs of shipping. For those vessels which desire to call at oil terminals for fuel, there are ten convenient locations within the harbor area. Several of the oil docks at which bunker service is available can accommodate supertankers or vessels drawing up to 32 feet of water. Most of the petroleum handling facilities are concentrated in the Fairfield and Curtis Bay areas; however, other terminals are scattered in various sections of the harbor.

Provisions

at many of the terminals are also made to supply small vessels and to load harbor service craft. These harbor service craft are privately operated and will deliver bulk and drummed petroleum products to vessels anywhere in the port and are listed in the table of Floating Equipment as bunkering craft.

Piers Nos. 1, 2, and 3 of the Esso Standard Oil Co., located on the east side of the Northwest Branch, provide bunker service to deep-draft vessels. Each pier has a berthing space not less than 400 feet on each side; the prevailing depths of water alongside range from 20 to 32 feet.

In the Fairfield area of the harbor there are 5 waterside terminals at which deep draft vessels may receive fuel. Two of these docks also supply harbor craft and shallow draft vessels. Each of the terminals is operated by the several oil companies in the harbor with several sharing the use of dock facilities, either by separate or joint use of pipelines. East Brooklyn and other points on Curtis Bay and Curtis Creek provide additional sites for bunker oil docking facilities.

Petroleum and petroleum products are received and shipped at numerous piers and wharves. Some are destined to plants or refineries for further processing or storage, some to industries and utility companies for power, and some to local distributors for maritime and other commercial needs.

The tabulation below gives a summation of the facilities and operators, also the number of tanks and their storage capacities. Following this will be found detailed tables relative to the oil bunkering terminals available at

COAL BUNKERING AND COAL HANDLING

Each of the three principal railroads serving the port, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Western Maryland Railway, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, maintains coal handling facilities in widely separated sections of Baltimore Harbor. The latter rail carrier has two such facilities, one on Locust Point (P.W.D. Ref. No. 150) and the other on Curtis Bay (P.W.D. Ref. No. 237). In the Canton

the Pennsylvania Railroad operates P.W.D. Ref. No. 37, and at Port Covington, the Western Maryland Railway operates P.W.D. Ref. No. 183. Although these facilities are the largest and most notable of the port's commercial coal handling docks, there are also other facilities which serve waterfront industries, utilities, and local distributors.

The Port Covington Coal Pier of the Western Maryland Railway and the Curtis Bay Coal Pier of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are the only piers at which oceangoing vessels currently receive cargo or bunker coal. In addition to the vast quantities for export, a large volume of coal, at both piers, is dumped for movement by barge to Baltimore industries.

The Port Covington Coal Pier provides 887 feet of berthing on either side. Its two loading towers provide a total rate, for both loaders, of 3,500 tons per hour; each has a telescopic gravity chute with attached mechanical trimmer. Lowlevel chutes and conveyor belts are also provided for loading small vessels. each side of the Curtis Bay Coal Pier, there is provided 700 feet of berthing space with 35-foot depths of water alongside. Four electrically-operated traveling coal loading towers, each equipped with a horizontal retractable belt conveyor, a telescopic loading chute, and a mechanical trimmer, serve vessels at a rate of 2,000 to 2,500 tons per hour per unit. The tower conveyors are each supplied by one of four 60-inch belt conveyors which extend out on the pier from car dumper storage bins at the shore end. Both piers have adjoining rail car storage facilities.