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Weather Bump
Always a factor at this time of year, weather will have a bearing on shipping activity Sunday January 20, as storm passes up the Bay of Fundy, with snow and or rain and high winds.One ship will be...
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Weather fallout
As predicted Sunday's storm resulted in the suspension of pilotage operations in Halifax from Sunday pm until 1500 Monday.Some ships managed to squeeze in and out of port before conditions worsened....
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Pilot Boat follow up
In my last post I mentioned that the regular pilots are out of service and back up boats have been brought in. It now transpires that on January 16 while Scotia Pilot was approaching to board the pilot...
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Thursday's report
Halterm was running efficiently this morning with one ship leaving and another arriving right on its tail. The Icelandic Steamship Co (Eimskip) had their regular caller Skogafoss in this morning for a...
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Returns
After a wild night off Halifax with wind gusts approaching hurricane strength, it is no surprise that pilotage operations were suspended until this morning. When they did resume its was Captain E.T....
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Kivalliq W. fire and Yantian Express update
Shipboard fires, like fires on land, are a fact of life, but some are far more serious than others. A recent fire aboard a gas tanker in the Crimea which resulted in an explosion involving two ships...
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Double Header
As THE Alliance scrambles to make up for the port calls missed by the Yantian Express fire, there was the rare sight of two ships on the same line, in port at the same time.Two ships on the same line...
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Search Operation - with tragc result [updated]
At approximately 0215 hrs this morning the workboat Captain Jim lost power and began to take on water off Devils's Island, just outside the harbour. Of the three persons aboard two managed to escape...
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Yantian Express fall out continues
The saga of the Yantian Express fire will be a long one and it is by no means over. HAPAG-Lloyd has declared General Average, meaning that all cargo interests will be required to post surety before...
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Halifax Port container stats disappoint
The Port of Halifax has issued its container statistics for 2018 with little fanfare. I guess that would be expected from one of the few ports to show a decline in container trade over 2017. Citing the...
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Elka Hercules at Irving Oil and a digression
The chemical and product tanker Elka Hercules at Irving Oil Woodside is scheduled to sail early tomorrow morning after discharging cargo from Europe.The ship has obviously been used to carry corrosive...
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Join the Crowd at Pier 9
The cargo ship Unistar managed to find a parking spot at the Richmond Terminals piers this afternoon. It was able to squeeze in at the far north end of Pier 9C to load a cargo of large diameter...
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EF Ava- another lost life, APL Vancouver - another fire
EF Ava, one of three ships operating on Eimskip's weekly Green Line (Reykjavik / Argentia / Halifax / Portland / Halifax / Argentia / Reykjavik was en route from Argentia to Reykjavik January 29 when...
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Lomur for Eimskip
It was an icy initial trip for the latest addition to the Eimskip fleet. Lomur arrived this morning with a substantial build up of frozen spray forward, coating masts and containers several feet thick...
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Ice Point - why more oil
Ice Point It is the time of year when we see ice class tankers more and more. Not that they require this capability for Halifax, but they are working the region. A case in point, so to speak, is Ice...
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The ins and outs of it
Late afternoon today was the busiest I have seen Halifax in some time. In the space of little more than an hour there were two arrivals and three departures of large ships.First off the mark was the...
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Ice Point, CLI Pride, and some harbour craft
The tanker Ice Point completed unloading at Nova Scotia Power, Tuft's Cove and sailed at noon time. [See earlier Shipfax post for more detail]Ice Point in ballast heading for the St.Lawrence River.The...
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Biggest yet or just big
The latest big ship to arrive in Halifax is CMA CGM Thalassa that put in this morning, before sunrise and will sail in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. That it is big, there is no doubt. It measures...
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BBC Michigan
The cargo ship BBC Michigan made a brief call at pier 27 today. The ship is en route from New London, CT to Sorel, QC and appears to be in ballast, or very lightly loaded. A member of the large BBC...
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Michigan
Yesterday's unmemorable photo of the BBC Michigan reminded me that there have been several ships with Michigan in their names that have called on Halifax over the years. Surrounded by and spanning...
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