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Identifying the Carmel Agrexco's ship in the background edit
By its appearance, it could be one of the two sister ships owned by Carmel Agrexco at the time (archive) – either Carmel Ecofresh (IMO 9267534) or Carmel Bio‑Top (IMO 9267546). The ships appear very similar; the resolution of this photo on Commons is not enough to read the ship's name, or even be able to see its length. However, reviewing their photos on ShipSpotting.com (1 ([ archive]), [ 2] ([ archive])), I think I could spot a small but visible difference that allows distinguishing them.
On their left side, just above and to the left of the "C" of "Carmel" logo, both ships have 4 openings in a horizontal row (on low-resolution photos they appear like 4 spots that are only slightly darker than the ship's side, contrary to windows which appear black). They can be seen in detail on newer photos of these ships – here (archive, archive) for Magellan Strait (former Carmel Ecofresh), and here (archive, archive) for Messina Strait (former Carmel Bio‑Top).
Apparently, only Carmel Bio‑Top had some kind of slightly dark spot just above the rightmost of those four openings. It…
- …can be seen fairly well on this Dec 9, 2009 photo (archive, archive)
- …is also barely visible on this Jan 28, 2009 photo (archive, [ archive])
- …is visible on this Jun 8, 2006 photo, the earliest on ShipSpotting (archive, archive)
- …and is also visible in this file on Commons, allowing to identify the ship as Carmel Bio‑Top.
This spot is no longer present on the earliest relevant ShipSpotting photo (archive, archive), showing this ship after it was renamed from Carmel Bio‑Top (to Cala Pira), dated Aug 11, 2012. Maybe it was covered when the ship was re-painted?
