Saginaw River Docks - Blueknight Energy Partners Dock

Jutting out into the river, next to the North Star dock in Essexville, is a small dock with a pipeline for offloading tank barges. This is the Blueknight Energy Partners dock and the pipeline runs to its nearby tank farm.

Blueknight Energy dock

This used to be known a few years back as the Triple Clean Liquifuels dock. More recently as the SEM Materials dock, and over the winter becoming Blueknight Energy.

Karen Andrie and her barge unloading at SEM in 2009

Primarily serviced by tag and barges from Andrie and before they went out of business, Hannah Marine, This dock had 2 deliveries during the 2009 season. On average, there are usually four to six deliveries during a shipping season. Back in better times, it was not uncommon for the dock to receive deliveries during the off season, with help from an icebreaker, much to the dismay of the local ice fishermen. In 2005 Triple Clean had 15 deliveries.