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Quebec Report #2
More ideal weather and tides = more photos.First up this morning was the tanker Las Cuevas from Norfolk for Quebec City in ballast.Built in 2000 by Minami Nippon, in Usuki, Japan, the ship measures...
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Presever to the scrappers
FILED REMOTELYFile photo: Preserver in use as a fuel shuttle, relied on tugs to move it between the HMC Dockyard and Imperial Oil after it was withdrawn from seagoing in 2014.Although I was not in...
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Quebec Report #3
Sundays are often busy days on the river as ships aim to reach port on Monday. Today, despite some heavy showers, tide and time co-operated for a few photos of the dozen or so ships that passed my...
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Louis S. St-Laurent and others - Quebec Report #4
The veteran Canadian icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent completed sea trials today and headed for St.John's. In mid-river, well out of the normal shipping channels, CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent conducts...
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Speed limit - Quebec Report #5
A large swath of the Gulf of St.Lawrence is effected by the temporary speed restriction imposed by Fisheries + Oceans Canada in a perhaps futile attempt to reduce North Atlantic Right Whale...
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CCGS Pierre Radisson - Quebec Report #6
CCGS Pierre Radisson has been conducting engine trials off my place since Friday. Ranging between Gros Cap-à-l'Aigle and Cap-aux-Oies, the ship has spent most of its time anchored off the Kamouraska...
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Oranjeborg - back again, Quebec Report #7
The wharf at Pointe-au-Pic, QC sees on average two ships a month to load paper. The paper is produced by the Resolute mill at Clermont a few miles away and trucked to the wharf warehouse by a shuttle...
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Schedule disarray - Quebec Report #8
The temporary speed restriction in the Gulf of St.Lawrence is having an effect on the whales it is intended to protect and on ship schedules.No ship strikes have been reported, and no dead whales have...
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Light Loads - Quebec Report #9
There has been lots of daytime shipping activity in recent days, but many of the ships appear to be lightly loaded.Detroit Express with its ungainly cranes, and light draft is carrying a normal load....
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NACC Québec - Quebec Report #10
The cement carrier NACC Québec was upbound this afternoon on its second trip to the Seaway. On its first trip last week,it discharged at a new terminal in Cote-Ste-Catherine. This trip it will be...
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Ferbec - Quebec Report #11
Another ship that may be a familiar sight on the St.Lawrence for some time to come is the bulk carrier Ferbec. The largest ship in the CSL domestic fleet, it is also the second ship to carry the name...
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Bigger ships for ZIM
With the opening of the enlarged locks in the Panama Canal earlier this year, ZIM has been bringing larger ships in. Theses ship, too large for the old canal, can now go transpacific and continue on...
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Friday evening and Saturday activity
Just as the sun was setting Friday evening the container ship Brotonne Bridge got underway from Fairview Cove for sea. The Cerescorp container terminal had been particularly busy over the past few...
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Drama Queen 1
A small drama unfolded in Halifax harbour Sunday evening when the party /tour boat Harbour Queen1 lost power during a tour. The boat drifted inside the Halterm pier extension onto the breakwater.It...
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Tiger - a Wilhelmsen giant
Wilhelmsen's Tiger made its second call in Halifax today. The first was March 1, 2016, but on that occasion it did not manage to pass my camera. Atlantic Oak follows the ship out to Ives Knoll, but did...
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Rotterdam - shortest stop on record
Rotterdam, co-flag ship of Holland America Cruises (with Amsterdam) made one of the shortest port calls on record today. It was less than an hour and a half from arriving at the pilot station to...
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HAPAG-Lloyd ships
Since the formation of THE Alliance earlier this year, there has been a dearth of HAPAG-Lloyd ships in Halifax. Other members of the block have been providing the ships on the various routes that call...
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Hyundai Sunday
ZIM continues to bring in bigger ships. Today's first time arrival was the Hyundai Mercury, a ship owned by the nebulous Arzel Shipping Inc, and managed by Eastern Pacific Shipping (UK) Ltd. The latter...
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Rotterdam arrives
The cruise ship Rotterdam arrived and tied up in bright sunshine this morning unlike the short look -in last week. It apparently reached New York and sailed on schedule after its transatlantic...
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Onego Ponza - another load of rails
After only four days in port Onego Ponza is sailing this evening after unloading a cargo of rails from Poland. This is not the first visit for the ship. It was here in August 2009, March 2011 and again...
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