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Ice prevents Iqaluit's last sealift ship from offloading all its cargo

Iqaluit's last sealift ship of the season, the MV Umiavut, wasn't able to offload all the cargo destined for the city because of early ice forming along the shores of Frobisher Bay.
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The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen escorts sealift ships the MV Maria Desgagnés and the MV Umiavut through Hudson Bay in July 2015. The MV Umiavut, on its last trip to Iqaluit of the season, left the city Oct. 30 without unloading all of its cargo due to ice forming in Frobisher Bay. (Department of Fisheries and Oceans)

Iqaluit's last sealift ship of the season, the MV Umiavut, wasn't able to offload all the cargo destined for the city because of early ice forming along the shores of Frobisher Bay.

A spokesperson for Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping, the ship's owner, said most of the cargo was offloaded before the ice formed, except for some drums of asphalt for the construction project of Iqaluit's new airport.

The company said it stayed as long as it could, before departing Friday for Kuujjuaq. 

It says the incomplete delivery would not have happened if Iqaluit had a port.

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