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Poavosa Brave, Palanca Sydney and Nagoya Express
There were a couple of unusual names in the port today, brought in by first time visitors.The first arrival was Poavosa Brave, a bulk carrier, out of Baie-Comeau with a load of grain. It arrived over...
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Halifax Shipyard's Drydocks
Halifax Shipyard was founded as the Halifax Graving Dock Co. Its prime asset was a graving dock, carved into the Halifax shoreline. It was built to cater to iron and steel ships of the Royal Navy and...
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Big Tanker, Big Bulker
The bulk carrier CSL Metis arrived on November 8 for some maintenance at pier 26. The former tanker, built in 1981 was converted to a self-unloader in 2007 and has been in Halifax before, but never for...
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Aeneas - not a particularly glorious moment
It was a dull and windy Remembrance Day in Halifax. Despite being a day off work for many Nova Scotians, Halterm was working two ships Zim Constanza and Aeneas. The latter is also working for ZIM and...
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Klaveness passing on bulkers
The Norwegian shipping company Klaveness Ship Holding AS has decided to get out of the bulk carrier business and will sell its five self-unloaders, several of which are known in Halifax.The $190 mn...
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CSL Pool Update
CSL Metis got underway from pier 26 to National Gypsum this morning on completion of its maintenance work. As it did so, more details emerged about the CSL / Algoma deal to purchase the five Klaveness...
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LeeWay Odyssey
LeeWay Marine of Halifax is a marine service company offering research support and other services, and it has acquired its first ship, LeeWay Odyssey. The ship has now arrived in Halifax and it may be...
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Toledo
The pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) Toledo arrived for Autoport this morning. Because there were other ships arriving it had to wait in number one anchorage for a second tug.Toledo with Atlantic...
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Nolhanava - report from the Where Are They Now Department
Since its brief tenure (for the second time) on the Halifax St-Pierre run, the RoRo Nolhanava has been doing some traveling.It sailed form Halifax October 3 and was next reported in Colon, Panama. Next...
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BBC Northsea - bunker stop
The general cargo ship BBC Northsea put in for bunker this evening.The ship was built in 2000 by Stocnia Gdynia in Poland and belongs to the large Briese fleet of Leer, Germany. The ships of the fleet...
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CMA CGM Dalila and heavy weather for shipping
As CMA CGM works its way through the Columbus loop lineup of 17 ships, we continue to get a first time caller every week. This week it is CMA CGM Dalila, flying the French flag and owned directly by...
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Two tankers and not much else but the Louis
It was a wet and windy day in Halifax with very little harbour avctivity. During a brief lull in the weather I was able squeeze of a couple of shots of tankers at Imperial Oil.Gotland Carolina was at...
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Morning Margareta
It was not exactly morning in Margaritaville at Autoport today. Blustery would be more like it, with gusty high wind and rain at times heavy, but this did not dampen the process of unloading another...
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Zim Iberia arrives off Chittagong
The end is near for a one time Halifax caller. Zim Iberia arrived at the Chittagong anchorages today, and will soon be headed to the scrappers. It was reported in October 2014 that the ship had been...
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Bumper to Bumper at piers 27 and 28 and OOCL again
Squeezing two ships into piers 27 and 28 today meant one ship has it bow projecting out in to the harbour. That ship is Onego Pioneer with a load of rails from Poland for CN. It berthed stern inward...
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Bahri Tabuk and its deck load
The multi-purpose Con-Ro Bahri Tabuk made another call in Halifax today. Since its first call just over two years ago, October 19, 2013, the ship and its five sisters have become familiar sights. Even...
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Roll on RoRos
Two autocarriers for Autoport today, and another tomorrow - that makes seven this week, not including Oceanex Sanderling. Who is buying all these cars?Today's crop were a little out of the ordinary....
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Desgagnés add two (finally)
Transport Maritime St-Laurent Inc (TMSL), a joint venture between Valéro, operators of the refinery in St-Romuald (Lévis) opposite Québec City, and Transport Desgagnés is finally able to put it latest...
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Hanze Goteborg - colour coordinaiton in the harbour
There was good colour coordination today as the garishly painted Hanze Goteborg took fuel from the more sedately painted Algoma Dartmouth.Built in 2013 by Qidong Daoda Marine in Qidong, China, the...
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CMA CGM moves
Halifax's "newest" container line is making some big moves.The French company CMA CGM has opened up its Columbus Loop service to China Ocean Shipping Co (COSCO). The Asia-North America service called...
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