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Much ado (Post #3)
Among the various activities in Halifax harbour today, August 2, was a long expected and significant shift. The Oceanex Sanderling arrived on its weekly run from St.John's and docked at Autoport as it...
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More variety
There was more variety in harbour traffic again today, August 3. A late morning arrival was the medium endurance USCGC Forward WMEC 911 out of Portsmouth, Virginia. It is a Hero class vessel, named...
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ONE lucky bird
Contrary to yesterday's post the ultra sized container ship ONE Apus did not arrive last night, but held off Halifax until mid-morning today August 4. That allowed two other ships to dock at the...
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ZIM moves
Another shoe dropped today (August 4) in the rationalization of container lines between the two container terminals in the Port of Halifax. Under common management of PSA, previous shifts saw some MSC...
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ZIM moves (Part 2)
ZIM has moved its operations to the PSA Fairview Cove terminal after fifty plus years at the South End Container Terminal (SECT) (now operating as PSA Halifax Atlantic Gateway). The common management...
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Sea Installer
Another offshore construction crane ship arrived in Halifax today (August 5), The Sea Installer will be working on the Vineyard Wind project from the staging base at the Woodside dock on the Dartmouth...
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Tannhäuser
The Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean autocarrier Tannhäuser had a mostly uneventful stay in Halifax yesterday to today (August 5-6). It arrived first thing yesterday morning and docked at Autoport to unload...
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Harbour Fountain for Irving Oil
Although its name conjours up images of spraying jets of water, there was only a more feeble effort as the tanker Harbour Fountain arrived in port this morning, August 7, and berthed at Irving Oil's...
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Patara - more VWs
Today (August 8) it was another consignment of new cars for Autoport - this time from Emden (and therefore most likely Volkswagens). Appropriately enough the ship carrying the cars belongs to the...
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Celebrity Summit - delay departure
The cruise ship Celebrity Summit was about an hour late leaving Halifax this evening due to a medical emergency.The pilot was orded for 1730 hrs ADT, but about 1830 hrs I noted that the ship was still...
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Very Big Visitor
The Port of Halifax sees some large ships - usually cruise ships or container ships - but occasionally a large bulk carrier shows up. That was the case today, August 9, when the Mineral Maureen took...
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Unusual visitor
Ships of the Nova Algoma Cement Carrier fleet can be tracked passing Halifax quite frequently. Running between the huge cement plant in Gascons - Port Daniel, QC and terminals at US east coast ports,...
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Solar Sally for CFIA
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency had another ship to examine today, August 11, 2023. The tanker Solar Sally arrived from Vondeling, Rotterdam and took up position in the short term number one...
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Recent Tankers
Both Irving Oil and Imperial Oil had foreign flag tankers in Halifax recently and McAsphalt had their articulated tug/tanker barge in port. Irving Oil's Woodside terminal took cargo from STI...
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Big News at Irving Shipbuilding Inc
There was a lot of news for and from Irving Shipbuilding Inc (ISI) in the last few days (August 8-10). The first bit that caught my attention was that on August 8 Halifax Shipyard (HSY) began to cut...
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Coming Soon
Shipfax usually reports on Halifax Harbour activities after they occur, since there is always a bit of unpredictability about ship movements. However is this case, it is a rare enough event that a...
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Coral Princess
A "new to me" cruise ship is the Coral Princess which arrived in Halifax this morning August 14 on a lengthy cruise from England to Australia.Built in 2002 by Chantier de l'Atlantique in Saint...
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Gloria on the move
The ARC Gloria, the Colombia navy's sail training barque, moved from anchorage to the Tall Ships Quay on the Halifax waterfront this morning August 15.Dressed alll over and with the crew in the yards,...
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CFIA clearance
The phrase "honour among theives" is well known, but honour (Canadian spelling) among barbarians is a new one on me. The name Barbarian Honor (US spelling) thus seems an odd one, but then again ships'...
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Old and New
There was a contrast in Halifax harbour today, August 16 as an old ship was towed out of Halifax for the last time, a portion of a new ship was rolled out of the Assembly Hall at Halifax Shipyard....
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