CSL Acadian- another ex tanker

As posted last week when CSL Metis called to load gypsum, CSL Americas (at the time CSL International) needed ocean going panamax self-unloaders, and instead of building from scratch, they found tankers in good condition and built new forebodies complete with self-unloading equipment and joined them to the tankers after sections.
This afternoon another of these ship arrived for a very rare visit to Halifax (I have never seen this one here either as far as I can remember).

Built by Tsuneishi ZKK in Numakuma, Japan in 1982, as Janus, the ship was renamed Skaulake in 1992 and in 1992 Cabo de Hornos. When CSL bough the ship in 2004 they renamed it Cabot until the conversion was completed in 2006 when it acquired its present name.
As a tanker the ship measured 40,482 gross tons and 67,208 deadweight.With the new forebody it now measures 45,740 gross tons, 74,517 deadweight tonnes. As with many of the tanker conversions, the ship has a reliable B+W (Mitsui) main engine.CSL provides a spec sheet on their web site:http://www.cslships.com/en/csl-americas/fleet/vessels-and-specs/csl-acadian


The tugs Atlantic Larch (at the bow) and Atlantic Willow stopped and turned the ship and backed into pier 25-26, where repair crews were waiting to work under the ship's stern.