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More Business for PSA
PSA Halifax's southend terminal, the Atlantic Hub, was busy today, May 2, with two small ships working at Pier 42 and one medium sized ship arriving for Pier 41. Tropic Lissette was working at Pier 42...
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Taking Turns
PSA Halifax's Atlantic Hub (former Halterm) was full up again today, May 3, [see yesterday's post]. With MSC Brianna at Pier 41, MSC Santhya made an early morning arrival at Pier 42. Meanwhile ZIM's...
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Up Close, and Up Ended
It is always a pleasant surprise when a big ship comes in west of George's Island. The west channel, opposite the seawall of Pier 20-22, is not usually the first choice for ships whether arriving or...
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MSC Rachele
The Mediterranean Shipping Company has 664 ships (with a capacity of 4,351,960 TEU) according to recent reports. It is therefore not surprising that some ships have similar names. One ship that has...
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In the Pink
The ONE Majesty arrived in full daylight this morning May 5, on THE Alliance's EC5 service. (Its previous arrival February 8 was in darkness.)With the tug Atlantic Beaver made fast forward and...
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MSC Extra Caller
The ship MSC Manya arrived at the Atlantic Hub (southend) terminal this afternoon on Voyage No. XA217. This seems to be an unscheduled extra call for the Mediterranean Shipping Company, perhaps with...
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Crude Tanker
After several days of interesting container ships, today, May 6, it is time for something completely different.There is no facility in Halifax for crude oil tankers, so the rare ones we do see are...
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Autoport double header
It was a two ship day for Autoport today (May 6), with one ship sailing and another arriving soon after.First arrival was the familiar Siem Cicero, a regular since first arriving in Halifax July 21,...
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Another Shediac Bay
The latest Canadian Coast Guard high endurance lifeboat arrived at BIO May 4. It is one of ten such boats to be built by Hike Metal Products in Wheatley, ON. Chantier Forillon in Gaspé is building ten...
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Great Conjunctions - almost
With ships of various shipping lines calling eastbound and westbound in Halifax it is not unusual when two ships of the same line are here at the same time. Sometimes those ships are sister ships, and...
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Slow Day
It was a very quiet day in the port with only one piloted arrival, and that was late in the day. The Tropic Hope picked up its pilot at the pilot station at 1700 hrs ADT. With its sister ship Tropic...
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Three Ts
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...
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Svanoy registered in Canada
The former Norwegian ferry Svanoy has now been registered in St.John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and will soon take up its one year charter to the Société des Traversiers du Québec. The ferry...
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Morning Lena - gimme a break, and another Gracht
Part 1The auto carrier Morning Lena arrived this morning for a two-stop visit to Halifax. First stop is Pier 9C to offload non-auto RoRo. It then moved to Autoport to offload cars. There was a drizzly...
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Back to Busy - amended
After yesterday's big visitor at PSA Halifax's Atlantic Hub, CMA CGM Magellan (13,880 TEU - sorry no photo) the facility was busy again today, with the Oceanex Connaigra in for Newfoundland cargo....
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The Switch
When PSA took over the lease on the Fairview Cove container terminal recently it was expected that certain rationalizations would occur. Some Lines that had been using the Fairview Cove terminal are...
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MSC Maria Elena - ups the ante, and a generic line.
Note:Some sort of computer glitch prevented the posting of this entry on May 14. It is being published May 15, but relates to activity on May 14. The Mediterranean Shipping Company's Indus 2 service,...
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Grande Marocco at Autoport
The Container / RoRo Grande Marocco arrived at Autoport May 14 from Bremerhaven and remained alongside today, Sunday May 15 and is due to sail Monday. It is an unusual ship for Autoport, as most ships...
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Me First
When it comes to hosting tankers at its Woodside Terminal in Dartmouth, Irving Oil gives preference to ships of its own domestic fleet. This is perfectly understandable, since domestic ships are...
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Cars, Passengers and No Passengers
Cars The autocarrier Toledo arrived in Halifax Monday, May 16 and after offloading a large consignment of RoRo cargo at Pier 9C, moved this afternoon (Tuesday, May 17) to Autoport to discharge...
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