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No encore at this concert
Another ACL ship has gone to the breakers.Atlantic Concert arrived off Alang, India September 15 and was beached two days later. Scrapping likely began immediately. Its fleet mate Atlantic Companion...
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Quest DX official
After nearly two years under the axe, it finally fell on September 2 when a DND memo revealed that in fact CNAV Quest will be decommissioned. Its civilian crew were notified at the same time. The...
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Week's roundup
Several events were worthy of note in Halifax harbour this week (although I missed some of them).The Irving Oil terminal in Woodside was recommissioned this week with the arrival of Acadian. The pier...
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Tankers
Many of the product tankers that callls in Halifax show up once and never again as they go about their bueinsss around the world. Some become more or less familiar faces, making several calls. Such is...
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Anthem of the Seas stands out (an over)
The 4900 pasenger Anthem of the Seas towered over Halifax once again on its third call of the month. Its arrival in darkness precluded any photo, but once in port it certainly dominated the skyline and...
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Averting the unthinkable
The National Energy Board of Canada dropped a virtual bombshell September 22 when it ordered an immediate 10% reduction in operating pressure on Trans-Northern Pipeline's Ontario-Quebec line due to...
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Busy cruise day
Another four ship cruise day in Halifax had every bus with four round wheels on the waterfront to carry passengers to the surrounding sights Celebrity Summit and Serenade of the Seas lined the seawall...
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CMA CGM anniversary, etc.,
The CMA CGM Columbus loop service is largely responsible for the large spike in container traffic through Halifax in the last year according to latest figures. (ACL has also increased cargo through...
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Maule for Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd continues to bring in odd ships that they have inherited from the CSAV merger. Today's arrival is Maule a 6589 TEU (1162 reefer) ship dating from 2010. It was built for Box Ships Inc of...
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The breakers have them now
Two more ships with Halifax ties have gone to the breakers. One ship had recent a connection and the other went much farther back.AGILEThe latter one was known in its Halifax days as Len Speer and then...
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A high level view of proceedings
There was concentrated activity in the harbour for a short period late this afternoon, and I took a high level view.Outbound at the time was HMCS Windsor: The cruise ship AIDAdiva cleared her berth at...
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NYK Line - collect the whole set, and a classic arrival
As mentioned previously, the NYK Line is member of the G6 Alliance and has contributed a whole class of twelve 4922 TEU / 65,000 -66,000 dwt ships to the Pacific Atlantic 1 service, calling in Halifax...
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More stuff from 1986 - part 1 of a series
As you are no doubt tired of hearing, Shipfax started as a typed newsletter (yes using an actual typewriter) in January 1986. The ships back then were quite different in many ways from what is calling...
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Weekend Report
It was a slow weekend for all but cruise ships, and even they must have felt a let down due to cloudy weather Sunday and torrential rain and high wind on Monday.The tanker Seameridian sailed on Sunday...
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Record Day...a bell rings...and a new autocarrier
RECORD DAY It was a record day for cruise ship passengers in the port of Halifax despite or because of weather. It would have been busy enough with the regularly scheduled Anthem of the Seas (4,905...
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More of the same, a newby and some old stuff
More of the sameIt was five cruise ships today, but much fewer passengers, and two of them were small and one was a hold over.Disney Magic (2400 passengers) remained in port all night and only sailed...
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More stuff from 1986 - part 2 of a series
BrookingsSome unusual ships called in Halifax during 1986, but perhaps the oddest was the former USS Brookings. It was built in 1944 by the California Shipbuilding Corp in Terminal Island, as a...
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CSL Tarantau ex Balto
It has been some time since a ship loaded at National Gypsum. Despite an improving US economy, demand for gypsum is still low and ships have been few and far between.Today's arrival is perhaps...
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More stuff from 1984 - part 3 of a series
Cruise ships were not as big a part of the Port of Halifax business in 1984. In fact the season was fairly short, ending October 1. There were only nine different ships, making about 33 visits. Ships...
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Tortugas and Saldanha Bay - southern ports
Two ships with names recalling southern places perhaps brought a little warm weather with them.The bulk carrier Saldanha Bay stopped in for bunkers en route from Jamaica. Named for a beautiful section...
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