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Oil for Power
The Nova Scotia Power Corporation's Tufts Cove Generating Station took a rare delivery of oil today. The facility has relied almost entirely on natural gas since 2000, but has retained the ability to...
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Narrows
Today, December 6, the 105th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion in which thousands were killed and many more injured and left homeless, the focus was on the Narrows of Halifax of Harbour. That is...
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ATBs and FOG
Fog, that bane of ship photographers, decided to visit Halifax today, December 7, of all days. Normally a spring and summer phenomenon, today's version was just as thick and just as unwelcome. The fog...
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Queen Esther for COSTCO
Big box "warehouse" retailer COSTCO brought in another of its in house container ships today, December 9. The Queen Esther is the fourth ship to call in Halifax since COSTCO set up the service to meet...
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CMA CGM Adonis
The Mediterranean Shipping Company, MSC (4.47 mn TEU) has attracted the headlines while overtaking Maersk (4.26 mn TEU) as the largest container line. Meanwhile the French company CMA CGM has also been...
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Weather is the story
Unseasonably warm air and ocean temperatures have kept winter at bay in Halifax until today's (December 12) arrival of the first snow flakes of the season. There have been high winds however, on and...
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Let it Blow (x 3)
The weather outside is frightful, but at least it was not snowing in Halifax (unlike northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, where there was heavy snow) today December 13. But it was the wind that...
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End of the Year, End of the Line
As the year 2022 comes to an end so do the careers of several ships from the region. At least four ships are soon to be no more as the scrappers torches may already be at work.Two ships from...
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CSL Koasek for Gold Bond
The CSL Group added two ships to its CSL Americas fleet last year, and today (December 15) marks the arrival in Halifax of the second of the ships, CSL Koasek. Its sister CSL Kajika stopped over in...
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Red and Green
The colours red and green are usually associated with Christmas, so I guess it was appropriate that red ships and green ships dominated harbour activities today with Christmas just over a week...
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Tankers x 4 and begining of the end
PART 1 (There is a Part 2 - scroll Way down)It was a day (December 19) for tanker activity in Halifax after several days of delays due to high winds:Tanker 1The handsome Alkaios arrived last evening...
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Gypsum and a New Name
Gypsum Gypsum has been leaving Halifax at a great rate over the last few days - possibly to build stockpiles over Christmas. Whatever the reason, there have been three ship loads since Monday...
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More twins - Franbo Lohas and Thorco Legacy
After yesterday's meeting of Canada Steamship Lines sister ships in Bedford Basin, there was another twin meet up - also in Bedford Basin - today, December 22. This time it was two multi-purpose...
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More DFO woes - now its the Needler
The federal government's Department of Fisheries and Oceans operates a variety of reseach vessels and the ships of the Canadian Coast Guard. After many years of what can only be called neglect in...
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Seaspan Loncomilla and Greetings
The container ship Seaspan Loncomilla made its second visit to Halifax on ZIM's ZCA service. It arrived over night last night and sailed this morning (Friday, December 23.) Its first call, on October...
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Christmas Greetings
My post from yesterday with a sort of "conditional" Christmas greeting turned out to be unecessary. Despite the high winds Ship Central (the home of Shipfax) did not lose power and and has maintained...
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Christmas Day news: Augusta Luna
News coverage is hard to find on Christmas Day as most news outlets and reporters are enjoying a well earned day off. Thanks to Facebook and a few enthusiast posts some news does seep out. It was from...
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CMA CGM Unity
Traditionally December 26, known as Boxing Day, is also a holiday in Nova Scotia, with stores closed and most businesses shut down for the second day in a row. Port operations however can be...
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Catch Up Day
It was unusually busy in the Port of Halifax today, December 27. There were several reasons for this, including improved weather and the end of the Christmas break (not for ships and terminals,but for...
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MSC Leigh - new assignment
The Mediterranean Shipping Company's MSC Leigh has been a some time caller in Halifax since 2020 on the CANEX 2 service to the St.Lawrence River. The ship called initially for Canadian Food Inpsection...
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