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USS Milwaukee
The latest Freedom class Littoral combat ship of the United States Navy arrived in Halifax late yesterday afternoon. It anchored in the lower harbour and early this afternoon moved in to HMC Dockyard...
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Marina L pit stop
The Liberian flag bulk carrier Marina L put in to Halifax Thursday evening for bunkers.It was not the only ship in for bunkers, the tanker Furuholmen arrived earlier, but also left under cover of...
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MarBacan for pier 28
MarBacan makes its way inbound as Maersk Penang takes the western channel to give it room. HMCS Halifax follows inbound for a quick turn around. The bulk carrier MarBacan* tied up at pier 28 this...
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Bigger bulker - Equinox Star, and more bulk bags from Helga
Today's arrival was another bulker, slightly larger than yesterday's arrival.Equinox Star measures 33,231 grt, 58,680 dwt, making it too large for the St.Lawrence Seaway. However with a visit for...
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CMA CGM Vivaldi back again
CMA CGM Vivaldi arrived today on the CMA CGM / UASC / CSCL Columbus Loop service. On August 3 it was the first CMA CGM ship to call in Halifax on this service. Now 18 weeks later it has completed the...
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Its official CMA CGM + NOL APL
CMA CGM's $2.43bn offer for NOL was tendered on Monday December 7 and promptly accepted by NOL's largest shareholder Temasek.The offer, at 6% above the latest closing price comes after four years of...
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More than cars for Carmen
Wallenius Lines' car carrier Carmen made a visit to the Halifax side of the harbour this afternoon, after discharging a shipment of automobiles at Autoport. Sailing for Wallenius-Wilhelmsen Lines, the...
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Chicago Express - good name;, and another Ace
Hapag-Lloyd picked a good name for the ship Chicago Express, at least as far as Halifax is concerned. Much of the import traffic over Halifax's container piers heads for the mid-west USA, thus giving...
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More cans, more cars
Like yesterday harbour activity was mostly containers and cars. This time I caught two inbound ships: Green Dale arrived late morning and headed directly to Autoport. It is owned in the United States...
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CMA CGM Cendrillon
Finally a break in the weather - which has been stormy, rainy or just plain dark for the better part of the week and most ship movements have been taking place early in the morning or late in the...
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From the Files - CCGS Ann Harvey
1985 Hull 72 at Halifax Shipyards was assembled on the ways.Thirty years ago the Canadian Coast Guard Type 1100 navigation aids / light icebreaker CCGS Ann Harvey was taking shape at Halifax...
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HH Emilia - not a stranger
The container ship HH Emilia arrived this morning with engine trouble. Far off its normal route, it is coming to Halifax as a convenient place to unload all 2,000 or so containers for another ship to...
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HH Emilia sails
The container ship HH Emilia sailed at 2330 hrs December 23 after unloading about 2,000 containers at Halterm [see previous post] .It also loaded (or re-loaded) a number of Hamburg-Süd containers, that...
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Holiday Catch Up
It was a busy day in the harbour to make up for the Christmas Day holiday when there was almost no activity. Longshoremen do not work on Christmas Day, so there were idle ships waiting to work...
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Avant le déluge
There was just time this morning to take a few quick photos before the snow strarted.At pier 41 CMA CGM Lavender had rapidly filled its decks, and probably holds too, with CMA CGM and Hamburg-Süd...
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Challenging afternoon
Strong winds persisted into the afternoon and evening as cold air continued to pump in.The regular caller Frtiz Reuter arrived on its 16th trip for Melfi Line and tied up at pier 42.Atlantic Larch...
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Busy Christmas Season of Yore
A little Christmas Holiday nostalgia from the old shoebox from 1979. If we think the Christmas season of 2015 was a busy one for Halifax, it was nothing like Christmas week of 1979. Christmas fell on a...
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In and out before the next deluge
With more snow predicted for today, the auto carrier Dignity Ace made it in to Autoport this morning and sailed at noon just as the snow was starting.As reported, the ship aborted its scheduled call...
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Freezing spray and fog
That unique combination of frozen spray and fog prevailed today as temperatures rose to zero and above. The melting snow from two days ago and light rain saturated the air which was still cooler than...
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