It was a busy day today, July 9, at PSA Halifax Atlantic Gateway, with three ships.
MSC Esthi, which arrived yesterday, departed mid-morning, eastbound on the Indusa service. Next stop: Port Said, ETA July 19. It was last here March 9 - a four month rotation to the day.
Despite heat warnings for some of the region, there was a definite chill in the air as fog was still lingering in the harbour approaches as the ship sailed just after 1000 hrs ADT.
The MSC Esthi was built by Samsung, Geoje in 2006 and is a 108,930 gt, 117,310 dwt ship with a capacity of 9178 TEU including 700 reefers. The ship has been retrofitted with an exhaust gas scrubber which seems to have been installed without the loss of any container capacity.
A couple of crew members are enjoying the view on a walkway just above the lifeboat. It is hard to tell where superstructure ends and scrubber housing begins.
Volga Maersk arrived late in the morning from Montreal on the return (eastbound) leg of its St-Laurent 1 voyage. Unusually it stopped here westbound on July 1. It is due to sail for Bremerhaven this evening.
The afternoon arrival was ONE Crane the eighth "Bird" class ONE ship to call in Halifax on the EC5 Europe - North America route for THE Alliance.
The ship used three tugs on its arrival with both Atlantic Fir and Atlantic Oak as tethered escorts astern and Atlantic Bear with a line forward. The stern tugs were called upon to really "put on the brakes" as the ship made its approach.
Built in 2016 by Japan Marine United in Kure, the 144,285 gt, 139,335 dwt ship has a capacity of 14,026 TEU. It was named NYK Crane on delivery, and was renamed ONE Crane and repainted in the Ocean Network Express magenta hull colour in 2019.
There are still three "Bird" class ships that we have not seen yet in Halifax. Sister ship ONE Falcon is due tomorrow. ONE Ibis and ONE Grus are due in the next few weeks.
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