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Dartmouth Trip
Although I live on the Halifax* (southwest) side of Halifax harbour, the best views of ships are sometimes from the opposite, Dartmouth** side of the harbour. Fortunately there are bridges and ferries...
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Ships that pass in the Basin
Cerescorp's terminal at Fairview Cove was host to two ships today, one after the other. First in was Atlantic Container Line's Atlantic Sail, berthing at the west berth to discharge RoRo cargo. When it...
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Primary Colours Day
It was an ideal day for colours, with bright sun in a cloudless sky. Ships seemed to take advantage of this with a display of most of the primary colours (or shades thereof). Instead of the drab black...
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We have lift off
The wind farm installation vessel Vole au Vent moved into position alongside Bigroll Beaufort again yesterday, and once spudded down elevated its hull out of the water.Today it was at work lifting wind...
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APL Dublin
Another 10,000 TEU plus container ship arrived at PSA Halifax today - APL Dublin flies the Singapore flag. Unfortunately it was raining and foggy when it arrived, and it is due to sail in the middle of...
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No submarines on the horizon
It came as a surprise to some to hear that the Royal Canadian Navy's four submarines did not spend a single day at sea in all of 2019. The subs are all are in various states of refit or repair and may...
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Nirint
Nirint Shipping B.V. maintains a regular service from Europe to Cuba, returning via Halifax. There are five ships on the run at present, but only four of then are scheduled for Halifax. Three of them...
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Hoegh Xiamen, Florida fire
Hoegh Xiamen, seen above arriving in Halifax 2015-11-02 is on fire in Jacksonville, FL. Built in 2010 by Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co in Xiamen, China, it is a relatively small ship by current...
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Grimaldi twofer
There were two Grimaldi ships in Halifax today, albeit briefly. As Atlantic Sail was inbound for Cerescorp's Fairview Cove terminal, Grande Baltimora was clearing Autoport for sea.The tethered escort...
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Algoma move
The laker Algoma Mariner arrived late Tuesday with a load of grain and tied up at pier 25-26.The ship was built in two stages in 2009 to 2011 by Chengxi Shipyard, Jiangyin China. The forebody, built...
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All Aboard - Vole au Vent
The last components were loaded aboard the jack-up ship Vole au Vent and it is scheduled to sail for Virginia later today. The wind farm towers, blades and nacelles arrived in Halifax from Europe on...
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Destination Halifax OPL
A ship giving the destination "Halifax OPL" has mystified me and other ship watchers, although it became obvious that it means that the ship is headed for the outer anchorages off Halifax. In fact it...
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Three times lucky
It is not usual for ships to change names these days (it was once thought to be unlucky) as names often follow a theme set by the owner. Ships are assets much like any other and can be bought and sold....
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Trading Closer to home
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd operates two services to Halifax. One involves biggish ships on world wide service, the other uses "feeder" size ships running weekly from New York and Kingston,...
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BOA and ZIMs
The tug BOA Odin arrived this morning towing the semi-submersible BOA Barge 37 and tied up at Pier 9 C.The name BOA is well known in Halifax as the company's semi-submersible heavy lift barges and tugs...
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Tanker Time
The Canadian flag tanker Algoterra arrived at Imperial Oil from Montreal on Thursday. After unloading at Imperial Dock 3, the ship moved this afternoon to Irving Oil Woodside, presumably for...
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Long Day
Nearing the longest day of the year, there was still lots of light well into Friday evening, so it was possible to take in much more shipping activity. The auto carrier Toscana moved from Autoport to...
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Just another ship - Yantian Express
The headline grabbing ship Yantian Express was all over the news when containers caught fire en route to Halifax January 3, 2019. After a nineteen day operation the fire was put out and the ship was...
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Algoma Integrity
Back to carrying the commodity it was built for Algoma Integrity took on a load of gypsum in Halifax and sailed for Baltimore this afternoon.Built in 2009 by Ilha, Rio de Janeiro, the 33.047 gt, 47,761...
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Sackville moving day
Every year Canada's naval memorial the former HMCS Sackville moves from its winter quarters at HMC Dockyard to Sackville Landing, next to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. The move usually happens...
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