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Polar Vortex touches down
High winds, snow and frigid temperatures descended on Halifax and played minor havoc with some shipping plans in Halifax and throughout Atlantic Canada.The chemical tanker Oceanic Crimson made its way...
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LPG carrier Gaschem Baltic
Perhaps a first for Halifax, the Liquified Petroleum Gas carrier Gaschem Baltic anchored for bunkers today. En route from Point Tupper, NS, the ship is used to carry both ethylene and LPG (propane,...
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ACLs G3s - where are the G4s
Although there has been no public statement all must not be going well for ACL's new G4 class ConRo ships. Two of the first three ships in the series have had problems with delays due to mechanical...
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Big ZIM Day
It was another big ZIM day at Halterm with two ships working. Zim Alabama was the first arrival, tying up at pier 42. Then there was the noon time arrival at pier 41 of a ship that is new to...
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Christmas Eve action
There has been a big rush over the past few days to clear cargo before the Christmas holiday. Both container terminals have been very busy, but Halterm cleared its last customer this morning when CMA...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Canadian Naval Auxiliary Vessel Sackville on the synchrolift, HMC Dockyard, Halifax, NS.Restored to its wartime appearance as HMCS Sackville K181 it is Canada's Naval Memorial.It still needs your...
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Fairview Cove - back at work
It was a short holiday for the Fairview Cove container terminal . After clearing its last ship at noon time Saturday, the pier was at full swing again first thing this morning.The big (old)...
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Wait your turn
Ships in Halifax are bit like bananas - they come (and go) in bunches.The tanker Ridgebury Cindy A arrived off Halifax yesterday and waited at anchor until the berth at Imperial Oil dock 4 was clear....
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Frosty Winds Make Moan
One of the lines in the Christmas song In the Bleak Midwinter says that "frosty winds make moan". There was no frost but a fair amount of moaning today as high winds wreaked havoc on transportation...
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Last arrival of 2016
The last arrival of 2016 was a Canadian ship (of sorts). My plans for a photo of its mid-afternoon arrival "gang aglay" as Burns put it, but I did manage a late afternoon photo after it tied up at...
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2017 - a slow start
There was not a great deal of traffic in the port yesterday, nor today, which most people took as a holiday.Mitiq completed its work at Fairview Cove and sailed mid-morning - obviously in ballast and...
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Palena - new on AZX
A new face on the AZX (Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai, MOL, NYK, OOCL) service from Asia via the Med to east coast North America arrived today, freshly painted in Hapag-Lloyd colours.Palena, built in 2006 by...
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Weather Woes
High winds again today brought port traffic to a near standstill. The only arrival was the supplier Atlantic Kingfisher. Since it was built here in 2002, it has been based in Newfoundland and was back...
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Acadia and Acadian, day and night
The "flagship" of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is the veteran survey ship Acadia. A veteran of two world wars and a pioneer in charting Hudson's Bay among many other achievements, the ship is...
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Saturday Activity
There was a fair amount of activity on the Halifax waterfront Saturday morning. Ships were hustling to get their work done in advance of a major snow storm.At pier 31 Helga was busily unloading its...
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Arca 1 doesn't make it
The bunkering tanker Arca 1 is firmly lodged on the shore just west of Sydney Mines on the coast of Spanish Bay, between Merrit Point and Bonar Head. The position is only about six miles from the...
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Un-tropical welcome for Tropical Shipping, and COSCO
The inaugural arrival of Tropical Shipping's first ship on its service from Halifax to the Caribbean was decidedly un-tropical. A fresh snow fall greeted Vega Omega as it tied up at pier 42, Halterm....
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Cape Flattery
Cape Flattery made a multi-stop visit to Halifax, tying up first at Irving Woodside last evening. After bunkering it moved over to pier 31 for some maintenance or other work.The ship was built by...
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My post on the Arca 1 has received more comments than any other post I have made on Shipfax. There are too many to publish and too many to comment on directly. And since this is my personal blog and...
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Frosty Saturday
I was a frosty day with temperatures plunging from plus 8C yesterday to minus 8C or colder today. It did not seem to slow down shipping activity with half a dozen arrivals and about the same number of...
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