Add a bird: ONE Grus

 Add another bird to the aviary of Bird class container ships on THE Alliance's EC5 service. Today (July 20) it was ONE Grus making a foggy arrival at PSA Halifax, south end terminal.

 Unlike some of the earlier birds (sorry) that have called, this one was built as ONE Grus. By the time it was delivered by Japan Marine United, Kure, in 2019, NYK had merged its new builds into Ocean Network Express and the ship did not have the NYK prefix. It has the same tonnages and capacities as its sister ships, namely: 146,684 gt, 138,611 dwt and 14,025 TEU.

Its name is not immediately identifiable as a familiar species of bird, but instead is the genus that includes cranes. Perhaps the better known Whooping Crane or Sandhill Crane would have been inconveniently long. Sister ship ONE Crane (ex NYK Crane) was built in 2016.

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