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Another inspection, with a happy result
Another bulk carrier arrived for Canadian Food Inpection Agency (CFIA) inspection today (August 17). This time it was the Cyprus flag Navios Happiness requiring clearance before proceeding on to the...
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AOPV 5
All three megablocks of AOPV5 the future Frédérick Rolette are now aligned and ready for connection at Halifax Shipyard. The roll out of the centre block was covered here on Thursday (August 17) and...
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Older Ships - Maersk Patras
Container lines continue the roller coaster ride of recent years. When shipping rates went through the roof during the height of COVID the lines made colossal profits. Now with rates in free fall, the...
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GPO Emerald
Another heavy load ship arrived today, August 22, with six more wind turbine towers. The GPO Emerald tied up at the Woodside dock where its sister ship GPO Grace had been tied up. The latter ship...
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Catch Up
There have been several noteworthy ship movements in Halifax over the past several days.Acadian Irving Oil's Acadian arrived in Halifax on August 24 after a refit in Setubal, Portugal. It returned to...
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Fairview Cove traffic
The PSA Fairview Cove container terminal was a busy spot this morning (August 26) with a departure followed immediatley by an arrival.NYK Constellation arrived late yesterday afternoon for an evening...
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More tankers and MSC containers
Imperial Oil brought in some more product from its source in Antwerp, this time on the Rita M a 28,054 gt, 45,997 dwt ship, built in 2009 by Shin Kurushima, Onishi. Originally named Torm Helsingor it...
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Looking forward from the Past
A recent post on Facebook reminded me that traditional Great Lakes freighters, built with the wheelhouse forward, are becoming rarer as time goes on. As older ships are removed from service and...
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Mixed Bag
There was a little bit of everything in the Port of Halifax today (August 29) - with tankers, passenger ships, container ships and both Canadian and United States naval vessels.The Marshall Islands...
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Another veteran for MSC
Today (August 30) another Mediterranean Shipping Company veteran arrived in Halifax. This time it was MSC Sariska V on the CANEX 2 service (to Spain and Italy from Montreal). It will take on...
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Tankers all round
There was activity at both Imperial Oil and Irving Oil's marine terminals yesterday and today (August 30 and 31).When Irving Oil's East Coast sailed after a brief stay in port (see August 29 post) its...
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Contship Art - Friday sailing
The ZIM feeder Contship Art got underway this afternoon, Friday, September 1, on its regular CFX run to Kingston Jamaica. The ship, and its companion Contship Leo, normally sail weekyl on a Monday or...
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New Arrivals and some departures
Today, September 2, saw three "new to Halifax" arrivals. Predictably two of those were container ships while the third was a genuine oddity. There were departures too, but they were not particularly...
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CMA CGM Paranagua
Another new to Halifax container ship showed up today on the CMA CGM / Maersk St-Laurent 1 / CAE (Canada Atlantic Express) service. CMA CGM Paranagua is very similar in appearance to another ship on...
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Layla departs
The coaster Layla [see also September 2 post] sailed this morning, September 6 giving Leixões, Portugal as destination. Because it was very windy, it did use the tug Atlantic Willow to get away from...
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Tamesis - two point landing
Wallenius Wilhelmsen's Tamesis sailed today (September 6) after calling at two different berths in Halifax. The ship arrived on Tuesday, September 5 and went first to Pier 9C to off load RoRo...
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Fleet Week Preparations
The Royal Canadian Navy is hosting its first ever Fleet Week, (more accurately Fleet Weekend) between September 7 and 11. Several Canadian and visiting naval vessels will be in port and open to the...
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Fleet Week (2) - more USN arrivals
Three more United States Navy vessels arrived in Halifax today (September 8) as part of the Royal Canadian Navy's first Fleet Week (see also previous post).First in was USS James E. Williams DDG-95...
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Amera - collect the set
The venerable cruise ship Amera arrived to day, September 9, finally allowing me to add to my personal collection of Royal Viking ships. Starting in 1972-1973 with construction of the Royal Viking...
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Ocean Explorer - aground in Greenland
A small cruise ship that called in Halifax on April 29 has run aground on the northeast coast of Greenland. The ship found a rocky ledge on Monday September 11 and although in no immediate danger, it...
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