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Two Cruise Day
Seeing two cruise ships in port is not unusual during the height of the cruise season in September and October, but it is rare in the mid-summer. Therefore today's two ships was notable.The familiar...
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Neither fog nor rain...
Shipfaxis not the US postal service, so fog and rain and other conditions such as heat and gloom of night, certainly do prevent complete coverage of activities in Halifax harbour. Fortunately fog and...
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More Reef Balls
The waters off Point Pleasant Park are receiving more reef balls. The perforated concrete structures have been placed on the bottom as improved fish habitat, but also as an offset of possible damage to...
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BBC Austria - updated
The multi-purpose / heavy lift vessel BBC Austria arrived today, August 4, initially at anchor, then moved to Pier 9C. The few hours at anchor were required by the Canadian Food Inpsection Agency to...
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Bow for AOPS 4
The megablock bow section for the fourth Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship has now been rolled out of the Assembly Hall at Halifax Shipyards and wheeled into position.The fourth ship in the series is to be...
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Light Load on EC5
Today's (August 7) arrival on THE Alliance's EC5 service is the Conti Contessa, a regular on the run for the last eleven months. Built as Ital Contessa by Samsung, Koje in 2006 it measures a hefty...
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Supreme Ace at Autoport
The auto carrier Supreme Ace arrived today, August 8, from Emden, Germany. After a brief stop at anchorage (likely for Asian LDA moth examination by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency) the ship...
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Good bye Hydra Mariner
The operation to remove the grounded Hydra Mariner from the shore of Navy Island in Bedford Basin appears to be complete. The former trawler Cape Mira, built in 1963, had been anchored nearby for...
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Unusual caller - Orange Spirit
With so much temperature controlled cargo moving in containers, the world's fleet of pure refrigerated cargo ships has diminished considerably, and all refrigerated or frozen cargo passing through...
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ACL Meets
The Atlantic Container Line has been serving Halifax since 1969 with a weekly container and RoRo route from North Europe to the east coast of Canada and the United States and return. The five 100,430...
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Passenger Invasion
With three passenger ships in port, Thursday August 11, downtown Halifax was awash with visitors, not to mention outlying tourist destinations as far flung as Peggy's Cove and the vineyards of the...
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Ferry updates
Part One Last month I reported on the ferries from various parts of Quebec, see Shipfaxfor July 14. Since that report there have been some interesting events, including the engine rrom fire on...
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Two for MSC
PSA Halifax's Atlantic Gateway container terminal hosted two MSC ships today (August 14). The first, MSC Aldebran II arrived early this morning and tied up at Pier 42. Heavy rain early in the day may...
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Cruise by another name, another CFIA inspection and box data
The Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines ship Borealis arrived this morning (August 16) on an unusual cruise itinerary: a fifteen day round trip from Liverpool, England (August 9) to St.John's, NL, Sydney, NS,...
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Blue Box Boats
A pair of container ships arrived today and coincidentally, they both had blue coloured hulls. Not the famous Maersk blue however, but darker shades. First in was the MOL Maestro wearing the...
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MSC Carouge, ex Panamax
The Mediterranean Shipping Company's Greece/Turkey service to the North American east coast brought in an unusual ship today: MSC Carouge. Dating from 2005, the ship was built by Daewoo, Mangalia Heavy...
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Something Different
With the same container ships arriving again and again - sometimes for years on end - it is difficult to find something new to say or to show in the way of photos. The typical ship photo enthusiast...
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AOPS 3 Max Bernays
AOPS 3, the third Arctic Offshore Patrol vessel, the future HMCS Max Bernays, left Irving Shipbuilding Inc's Halifax Shipyard for the first time today, July 22, for sea trials. Initially it went to...
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Something Different
With the same container ships arriving again and again - sometimes for years on end - it is difficult to find something new to say or to show in the way of photos. The typical ship photo enthusiast...
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Sea Cougar
The Athens based Pantheon Tankers Management has thirty-two tankers in its stable, and most have the prefix "Sea" in their names. The rest of the names are made up of animals, precious stones and...
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