It was a return to busy days in the port today, Monday May 9. And there were three ships in port with names begining with the letter "t".
The Norwegian shipowner Wilh. Wilhelmsen is well known for giving all its ships names begining with the letter "T". However today's arrival at Autoport, the Titus was a member of the partner company Wallenius Lines. The two companies combined their operations in 1999 and in 2017 formed Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean to operate a fleet or 123 or more autocarriers. Each company still owns ships, through subisidiaries and charters them to WWO. Wallenius still names its ships after operatic characters, and by coincidence their choice for this ship is the title character from Mozart's opera La Clemenza de Tito. Titus is loosely based on the Roman emperor Titus Vespasianus Augustus.
PSA Halifax's Atlantic Hub southen container pier had three ships alongside. Tropical Shipping's Atlantic Hope [see yesterday's post], Eimskip's Lagarfoss and MSC Tamara.
A regular caller on MSC's Canada Express 2 service, the ship tops up containers en route from Montreal to Italy and Spain. It will also call westbound to reduce ds\raft for the St.Lawrence River. A 4254 TEU ship, with 500 reefer plugs, it is a 41,225 gt, 50,446 dwt ship, built in 2007 by Zhejiang Yangfan Shipbuilding Co. It only required one ship to handle the loads.
Arriving at Pier 27 (now relocated from Pier 31 due to iminenent construction activitty at Pier 30-31) Nirint Shipping's Trinitas is appropriately the third of today's trinity of t-ships.
The ship is on its regular run from Moa, Cuba for Europe and is carrying a quantity of mixed nickel sulfides to off load. It was last here March 25 of this year, when the sun was on the right side (actually the port side) for a better picture. I gave more detail on the ship in that time post.
The ship's hull was built by Damean Okean Mikolayiv, Ukraine and completed by Damen Hoogezand, Foxhol.
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