Celebrating the days when the sun sets after 5 pm Atlantic Standard Time, I made my way to Point Pleasant Park to see off the MSC Kim on its way to Gioia Tauro on MSC's Med Canadian service.
Of course the ship's actual pilot order time was 1545 hrs, so I was not expecting to be crowding sunset, but as it turned out the ship was still working cargo at the appointed time and it took until 1720 to finish, let lines go and actually get underway. By that time the PSA Halifax Atlantic Hub terminal was all lit up. That certainly helped the exposure time required for a photo of the cranes.
A Mediterranean Shipping Copmany veteran, the MSC Kim was built in 2008 by the Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co in Ningbo, to the SDARI 4250 Pmax design. The 41,225 gt, 56,395 dwt measurements give the ship a capacity of 4254 TEU, with 550 reefer plugs.
The MSC Kim made the headlines when it lost power in the Gulf of St.Lawrence, 40 nmi. South of Anticosti Island and 66 nmi. East of Percé on March 7, 2022 while en route from Halifax to Montreal. It drifted for some distance while CCGS Terry Fox broke out a channel at Stepehenville to allow the anchor handling tug Atlantic Kingfisher to reach the ship, and tow it to Sydney, arriving March 11. See ShipfaxMarch 10, 2022 for more detail.
While waiting for the ship to sail this afternoon I did get a bonus view of the Royal Canadian Navy's Halifax based submarine HMCS Windsor arriving from sea. The sound deadening rubber tiles covering the hull do not get as cold as steel, so there did not seem to be any build up of frozen spray on the sub.
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