With the world's largest container ship fleet, the Mediterranean Shipping Comapny can keep coming up with "new to Halifax" ships more or less indefinitely. Today's (February 18) arrival then should not be much of a surprise, except for its unusual routing, which also seems to be "new to Halifax". The ship is MSC Marina and is arriving from Savannah, Freeport and Baltimore and is bound to the Middle East on MSC's Indusa service. Next ports of call are King Abdullah Port (Saudi Arabia), Mundra, Nava Sheva and Colombo. The service calls in Halifax eastbound only.
Built by Hyundai, Ulsan in 2003, the MSC Marina is a 73,819 gt, 85,506 dwt ship with a capacity of 6730 TEU, including 400 reefers.
Last night's freezing rain and snow fall should not delay the ship unduly as PSA Halifax has a large fleet of snow removal vehicles. (Most of which have not seen much action this winter.)
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