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East Coast - countdown
The tanker East Coast arrived today, January 8, at Irving Oil's Woodside terminal with more product from the Saint John refinery. This may be one of the ship's last calls in Halifax as its replacement...
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Algotitan at Pier 9C
The Canadian flag coastal tanker Algotitan moved today, January 9, from Imperial Oil to Pier 9C for a maintenance period.The ship looks a bit rugged, having worked intensively in and out of the Great...
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Exodus from Bedford Basin - Part 1
It was a day of departures from Bedford Basin as several ships put out sea despite storm warnings. After several weeks of up to three ships at anchor in the Basin at any one time, the anchorages...
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HMCS Margaret Brooke - (Exodus from Bedford Basin - Part 2)
Bedford Basin, that circular body of water at the head of Halifax harbour, has been a sheltering haven for ships for centuries. During the First and Second World Wars it was an assembly area for...
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PSA Halifax Atlantic Hub
PSA Halifax Atlantic Hub, had both berths operating the South End Container Terminal for a brief time this morning. The ONE Madrid sailed from Pier 41 soon after the MSC Shannon III arrived ar Pier...
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Cargoes in Quantity
The Port of Halifax is known as a container port, although not huge on the wortld scale, it did exceed the half million TEU number in 2023 handling 546,143 TEU. This was down significantly from...
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MSC goes alone and big small(er) moves
The Mediterranean Shipping Company is now the world's largest container shipping company and quite likely the Port of Halifax's largest customer. With nearly daily arrivals, it is hard to keep track...
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IT Intrepid to the rescue
A fast track application was made to the Canadian Transportation Agency on January 14 for a temporary coasting license for IT International Telecom's cable ship IT Intrepid. The ship is needed to...
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Your Roots are Showing
When ships change owners they often change names, funnel markings and other identifiers, but it is a major expense to change hull colours. That change is generally made during a regular drydocking,...
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Titania at Autoport
The Wallenius Wilhelmsen auto carrier Titania is today's (January 20) caller at Autoport, on the North Europe to North America service from Bremerhaven, Zeebrugge and Southampton. Unlike the subjects...
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Mix and Match - tankers and box boats
One of the appeals of Halifax harbour to ship watchers is the several types of ships that call in the port. Container ships of various sizes from a variety of shipping lines are the most predominant...
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ONE after ONE but not the news
Two Ocean Network Express (ONE) ships were seen in Halifax today, January 23 - one sailing and one arriving, but that was hardly newsworthy.The departing ship was the ONE Falcon on the westbound leg...
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Grand Champion auto carrier
The auto carrier Grand Champion made a short half day stay at Autoport today, January 24. Its arrival time at the pilot station was 0530 hrs, and allowing for the usual hour and a half or so, it was...
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Morning Calypso - more cars
Today's (January 25) auto carrier caller was more typical in terms of its route than yesterday's arrival. The Morning Calypso is on the usual Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean (WWO) run from North Europe to...
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Ophelia for ZIM
ZIM's two year old ZIM Colibri Express (ZCX) service continues to use a variety of chartered tonnage. Since the service from the west coast of South America to the Caribbean and US East Coast US was...
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A perennial post card from Halifax has the usual spaces for address and message on the reverse, but the image side is completely white or slightly grey with "Welcome to Halifax - fog capital of the...
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Conspiracy Theories
Recently there have been breaks in submarine cables both in Canada and in Europe. Conspiracy theories abound that the breaks are caused by malicious activity guided by Russia, but one thing is true -...
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Back to the Future and other matters
There were wintery conditions in Halifax today, February 5, with light dusts of snow. The temperature struggled to reach -10ºC [14º F], there was a biting wind at 26 kph [16 mph] with gusts to 35kph...
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Late in the Day and a Bonus
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...
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Loss of the Fortune Pride - Updated
The 18 meter long fishing vessel Fortune Pride capsized off Halifax February 6. An emergency beacon signal at about 2200 hrs AST initiated an intense rescue operation. Despite low visibility, due to...
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Cruise 2025
The Port of Halifax has announced details of the upcoming cruise season. The first cruise ship to call will be the Viking Polaris on April 18.The 30,114 gt ship, built in 2022 by Fincantieri carries...
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MSC Baltic III - AGROUND - UPDATE
A ship that made several calls in Halifax late last year has been reported aground on the west coast of Newfoundand. The MSC Baltic III is assigned to the Mediterranean Shipping Company's Canada Gulf...
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Dan Ships and Good Luck
The legendary J. Lauritzen company of Denmark has long been associated with arctic shipping, and its ice reinforced ships pioneered winter navigation on the St.Lawrence River. Until the early 1960s...
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S.S. United States
The famed transatlantic liner S.S. United States left its long time berth in Philadelphia on February 19 bound for eventual reefing in US territorial waters off Florida's (northwest coast)...
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Conspiracy Theories - Updated
In my February 3 post, I noted several recent breaks in important sub sea cables. Some of the breaks were suspected as deliberate acts of sabotage but nothing could be proven.The infamous Baltic break...
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