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Winter Break
The Oceanex Sanderling has been plowing a regular furrow between Halifax and St.John's since 1988. Sailing from Halifax on Fridays, it normally returns to Halifax by mid-week. Since it was last tuned...
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More Fallout
I seem to have missed a news item from mid-January, that was not widely reported (nor apparently announced officially). It is that the Mediterranean Shipping company MSC, the world's largest container...
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New role for Woodside
The Woodside waterfront on the Dartmouth side of the harbour is about to take on another role - albeit a relatively short term one.An area in North Woodside between the Nova Scotia hospital at Mount...
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Asian Captain and Weather
The EUKOR car carrier Asian Captain has been in Halifax twice by my count, and both times the weather has been less than ideal to say the least.The last time it was here, November 22, 2022 , there...
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Navig
Among the ships that hung about off Halifax during the recent snow fall was the Marshal Islands flagged Navig8 Constellation. The ship entered port yesterday, February 6, and tied up at Imperial Oil...
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Mixed Bag
It was a little bit of everything in the Port of Halifax today, February 8, including containers, automobiles, tankers and a Dockyard visitor. The container sector was represented by NYK Daedalus...
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Crossroads
Halifax was a cross roads this afternoon, February 9 with ship arrivals and departures all happening in the mid to late afternoon. Outbound was the autocarrier Don Carlos (see yesterday's post), After...
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What are the Odds
The title of this post is intended to be a rhetorical question, although someone with a higher degree of mathematical proficiency than I might the able to answer it. With some 1500* ships calling in...
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That's No Lady...
Many Mediterranean Shipping Company ships have feminine names, but the two most recent arrivals in Halifax have had geographical names instead. Yesterday it was the MSC Manzanillo and today the MSC...
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Protected tanker
Something I have not seen before on a tanker is a hard shell "turtle back" over the foredeck. Today, February 13, the tanker CB Pacific arrived from New York for Irving Oil, and the structure is hard...
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End of an Era - Head Line
I was fortunate enough to be present as the last of the great cargo ships called in Halifax. In the late 1960s and the early 1970s containers were taking over the world but it didn't happen over...
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End af an Era continued: Compania Peruana de Vapores
Another in a series about the last conventional general cargo ships.The South American country of Peru, like many countries from time to time, resented having to rely upon foreign owned ships for...
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Celestial Convergence
Ships of NYK's Daedalus class are weekly visitors on THE Alliance's AL5 North Europe / North America service. It is rare however for two ships of the class to be in port at the same time. Today...
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ONE Stork
The NYK Stork has called in Halifax before. Its first call was nearly a year ago, on April 26, 2023 (westbound) and again May 18 (eastbound), on THE Alliance's EC5 service from Asia. Since those...
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CMA CGM Osiris
For the second day in a row an Ultra size (greater than 10,000 TEU capacity) container ship arrived in Halifax. Yesterday's (February 19) caller ONE Stork's 14,026 TEU capacity was exceeded today...
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MSC with a V
As the largest container shipping company in the world, the Mediterranean Shipping Company has found a way to simplify ship identification by appending a Roman Numeral to the ship's name. The number...
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Narrows Action
Activity in Halifax harbour today (February 22) saw ships in the Narrows en route to or from Bedford Basin. The usual parade of Daedalus class ships continues for THE Alliance, but today's arrival is...
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NYK Romulus - update, MSC Cordelia - eastbound
Update #1 NYK RomulusIn my previous reports on the NYK Romulus I stated that it had been in port since February 13 and was prevented from leaving by some unknown problem. It shifted to Pier 31 on...
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Colourful ConRo - Grande Marocco
Even if their paint is faded and showing rust streaks, the yellow Grimaldi ConRos are capable of brightening the gloomiest of days. Halifax's mid-Atlantic weather (rain, fog, then falling temperatures...
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CMA CGM Mexico
Between 2009 and 2022 CMA CGM had a major building program to add twenty-two ships of the same design to the fleet. Called the Argentina class, the first five were built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in...
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