The very modern Beluga Ace car carrier stood out like a UFO when it tied up in Townsville, but failed to attract the attention of the earthbound local media . Of course, our Shipping Reporter , the only one north of Port Lincoln , snapped the Panamanian flagged vessel, constructed at the Minaminippon Shipbuilding yard and launched last year, the first in a new generation of FLEXIE carriers , with six liftable decks , 63,115 gross tonnage . Roaming about the nearby Duck Pond in the office coracle , he also captured another possible visitor ( below) from a far flung galaxy in a strange nautical configuration .
