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Float off AOPV 435
 The sixth Harry DeWolf class Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessel for the Royal Canadian Navy was moved to Bedford Basin today, December 9, to be floated off from the semi-submersible Boabarge 37. The...
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Traffic Control in Bedford Basin
Bedford Basin, and the Narrows leading to it, was the place to be in order to see activity in Halifax harbour today, December 9. The most notable activity was the Float Off of the Arctic and Offshore...
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CMA CGM Chile
 This week's caller on the Asia-North America service operated by the Ocean Alliance (CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen, OOCL) was CMA CGM Chile, one of 22 ships in CMA CGM's Argentina class. Built in 2019 by...
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Under Cover Operations - Part 1
 Some activities are carried out under cover of darkness in order to escape detection. Today, December 11, most operations in Halifax harbour were nearly invisible due to dense fog. Particulary as...
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Under Cover Operations - Part 2
 Under Cover Operations - Part 2This morning, December 11, thick fog arrived along with a rising tide, reducing visibility considerably. With some electronic tweeking to digital images, there is a...
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Where the Action Is
 Once again today, Friday December 13, much of the activity was in the far north end of Halifax Harbour at Pier 9C and in Bedford Basin.In chronological order: it was the movement of the offshore...
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Where the Action is - Part 2
 It was turnabout today, December 14 as most of the harbour action shifted to the south end of the port.Arriving at Pier 42, PSA Atlantic Hub (South End Container Terminal) was the MSC Kim from Sines,...
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Sub sandwich
 Today's photo "catch of the day" was the container ship NYK Meteor, but the picture was sandwiched between two semi-submersibles.The semi-submersible Forte arrived mid-morning from Rotterdam and went...
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More Boskalis, less MSC, plus one
1. Boskalis  Today, December 16, saw the arrival of another Boskalis-owned semi-submersible, heavy load carrier - the Triumph. This is quite a different sub-species of the category however. Instead of...
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Shipyard Find
 A CBC Radio interview today, December 17, reported that portions of the ill-fated French ship Mont Blanc were recovered during dredging operations at Halifax Shipyard. The "large" pieces were removed...
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Two ACLs and Fairivew Festivities
 Atlantic Container Line is a pioneering company in the shipping container revolution and a prime customer of the Port of Haifax since 1969. It currently operates five Container and RoRo ships (CONROs)...
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ONE Minato - back again, ditto for H Mercury and NYK Rumina
 ONE Minato The ONE Minato was back in Halifax again today, December 18, after a month. The ship first called here on November 18 on THE Alliance's EC5 service. As reported here, the ship is the tenth...
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Ferry news - good and bad REVISED
 1. Mostly good news on the Northumberland StraitAs a bit of an update on the previous post, November 13, the Northumberland Ferries Ltd service did resume on December 4 after repairs to the...
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Fednav for top up - amended
 The Canadian owned shipping company Fednav continues to grow and now has a fleet of about 120 ships. That represents some 64 owned and 97 long term chartered. It also employs ships for short term and...
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Big Move to Make Room
 Two large offshore inatallation vessels have been languishing in Halifax since August and September respectively. The Connector arrived August 30 and the Symphony on September 6. Aside from some DP...
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UBC Tarragaona at PSA
 An unusual caller arrived at PSA Fairview Cove on Monday, December 23. The UBC Tarragona is classed as a multi-purpose / dry cargo vessel and is not rated for carrying containers. However once...
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Bulkers Take a Break
 Most ships spend Christmas at sea. They thus avoid costly overtime charges for working during the holiday. Longshore worker wages can be triple the normal rate if the port or terminal is working. It...
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Back to Work
 After the Christmas break things begin to get back to normal. Ships put out to sea, terminals open up and before long there is a return to routine, perhaps even to clear an accumulated backlog.That...
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Clear Sailing
 After two days of intense fog (and the melting off of about 10 cm of snow left over from Christmas), today, December 31, there was a clear view of harbour activity.Yesterday's arrival, the Coastal...
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Oberon - takes the ribbon
 As a year round port Halifax rarely celebrates the first arrival of the year. (Such ports as Montreal and Quebec City historically celebrate first arrivals dating back to the days when they were...
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