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Miscellaneous Basin Activity
Bedford Basin was the main centre of interest today for the Coast Guard, Navy and commercial vessels. Coincidentally several of the vessels had connections with the month of November.The Container/...
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Riviera marks the end of the season
Riviera's arrival at pier 20 early this morning marks the end of the 2019 cruise season. All indications are that it was a successful year for Halifax, with very few outright weather cancellations and...
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Ocean Force closeup
The Ocean Force moved from anchor to pier 9C today, allowing a for a bit of a close up look.As mentioned previously the ship is reported to have semi-submersible capabilities, and this seems to be...
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Outport Report
With the possibility of winter weather coming soon, it was time to check in on nearby 'outports'. before road travel becomes unpleasant.Lunenburg is now home to a couple of globe trotting vessels,...
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Short Term callers
As promised gloomy weather and early sunsets resulted in some dark images today. First in and early out today was K-Line's Apollon Highway (Panama flag) painted in the latest K-Line livery.The 76,299...
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The Big Move - Part 1
Saturday, November 9 - the day for the big move of Boabarge37 from Halifax Shipyard to Bedford Basin seems to have come off without a hitch.The barge's payload, AOPS #2 (the future HMCS Margaret...
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Saturday business
It was typical Saturday business in Halifax, despite a light dusting of snow over night.It was back to more typical sized ships as CMA CGM Norma arrived at Halterm and tied up at pier 41. Built in 2006...
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November 11
November 11 is observed as Remembrance Day and most activity comes to a halt at least for a minute at 11:00 am, the hour of the Armistice that ended World War I. As might be expected there are numerous...
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USS Indianapolis
The Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship USS Indianapolis LCS 17 arrived this morning at the same time as the first wave of high winds and heavy rains.Tugs Atlantic Fir and Spitfire III met up with the...
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Seasonal Change
After yesterday's wild winds and driving rain, it was colder, clearer air today. The fresh breeze did not hinder shipping, but it certainly felt more like late autumn as temperatures dipped below...
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Follow ups
Less than ideal photos of several ships recently left a challenge to do a bit better.The November 9 photo of Atlantic Sky alongside Fairview Cove taken from Granbury Place in Fairview was one of those,...
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Verity for Tampa
Algoma Verity sailed this morning for Tampa, Fl with its cargo of gypsum.Transiting the Narrows gives a view of the grab crane/ hopper/ conveyor self-unloading system. The ship took two days to load -...
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More Gypsum To Go
There has been a real run on gypsum lately with another load going out today. This time it is a domestic load, on CSL's Salarium a Canadian flag self-unloader.Salarium docks stern in to make it easier...
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Don't Say No Comparison
With the same ships returning to Halifax time after time for years on end, it is easy to become blase and to ignore the repeaters. There may be something to learn however from seeing the same ship in...
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More Comparison
I did not expect to see such an obvious difference between yesterday's arrival and today's departure of YM Modesty.The ship's after deck has noticeably more boxes than it did coming in. I count seven...
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Glovis Countess and a strike
Glovis Countess arrived at Autoport this morning for what I believe to be the first time. The 60,213 gt, 18,701 dwt ship was built in 2010 by Mitsubishi Heavy in Nagasaki as CSAV Rio Geike. It changed...
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MOL Empire first time
MOL Empire made its first appearance in Halifax today on what seems to be a once only call.MOL Empires inbound past Maugher's Beach.The ship is lightly smaller than the usual MOL ships we see on...
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Tankers in and out
The usual comings and goings at Irving Oil and Imperial Oil this week saw one tanker at each facility.At Imperial Oil it was the Pro Onyx a very new ship, just delivered in September by Hyundai Mipo,...
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Harry Dewolf to builders sea trials
Following on yesterday's harbour trials in Bedford Basin the first Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS#1 set out on sea trials today. Using the name Harry Dewolf although far from being officially...
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CN strike - no sunshine
There does not seem to be even a small ray of sunshine on the horizon for a quick end to the CN Rail strike. So far CN management has been able to keep some trains running, but anything like regular...
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