Like last minute shoppers, ships continued to hurry in and out of port today (December 24) as they did yesterday. Some of the ships had lost time due the recent storms and had to stand by or anchor offshore, so did not did not want to lose more time due to the imminent holiday. (Several of the ships mentioned below were also noted in yesterday's post.)
For container ships there was only one arrival, the MSC Marianna from Sines, Portugal on the westbound leg of the Turkey-Greece run. It arrived as soon as the berth was available at PSA Atlantic Gateway.
Built in 2002 by Hyundai Ulsan, it is a 73,819 gt, 85,506 dwt ship with a capacity of 6730 TEU including 400 reefers. The ship is expected to remain idle on Christmas Day, with work resuming Tuesday December 26. It is rare, but not unheard of, for a ship to remain in port over the holiday.
There were several container ship departures:
ONE Eagle got underway from pier 41 on THE Alliance's EC5 service, eastbound for Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, with an ETA of January 19. The ship was built by Japan Marine United in Kure in 2016 as NYK Eagle and adopted the Ocean Network Express (ONE) name and colour scheme in 2019. It is a 145,251 gt, 139,335 dwt ship with a capacity of 14,026 TEU. As for cargo it appeared to be maxed out by volume if not by tonnage. Based in the ETA the ship will use the Suez Canal route and will therefore transit the Red Sea. It would take considerably longer than 26 rays if routed via rhe Cape of Good Hope. If events overtake the ship before it reaches the Suez Canal it could still be diverted.
Lagarfoss also got underway from the adjoining berth Pier 42. The ship is headed for Reykjavik on Eimskip's Green Line service from Portland, ME.
Navios Indigo also sailed for ZIM but the feeder Annie B (see previous posts) did not sail, but instead went to anchor in Bedford Basin where it is expected to remain until December 26. NYK Rigel also sailed from PSA Fairview Cove.
The bulker Baie St. Paul departed Gold Bond Gypsum for Côte Ste-Catherine, QC. The port is located on the South Shore Canal segment of the St.Lawrence Seaway west of St.Lambert, location of the Seaway entry locks.
The Seaway will be closing on January 5, so the ship has time to reach the port and unload. It may also exit the Seaway and continue trading before going into winter layup.
Also sailing was the heavy load ship GPO Sapphire. After unloading its cargo of wind turbine towers it is returning to Rostock, Germany for more.
Sister ship and fleet mate GPO Grace remains alongside at Woodside with more towers, wating for the return of the installation ship Orion which sailed overnight December 22-23.
Also sailing today was the general cargo ship Ayita after unloading is cargo of rails from Poland.
The Ayita arrived December 16 [see post] and is now headed for Grande-Anse, QC, presumably for an export cargo, which could be lumber, paper or aluminium ingots.
There was also activity at the tanker berths. Irving Oil's East Coast arrived on its usual round from Saint John and tied up at the company's Woodside terminal.
As the East Coast made its way inbound there was an interesting sidelong view of the container ship CMA CGM T. Jefferson at the outer anchorages. It is not often that the spaces between the containers are so distinctly visible.
Another tanker, Kivalliq W. sailed from Imperial Oil's number 3 dock. It had been holding offshore due to swells at the oil dock and finally got in on Friday, December 22. The much travelled ship was recently reported in Goose Bay November 18-20, Nain November 24-27, Goose Bay December 3-4, Montreal December 8 then upbound in the Seaway December 9. After loading in Sarnia December 12-14, it was downbound again December 16.
The ship has an interesting history. It was laid down in 1999 and launched in 2000 but not completed until 2004 at the Binjiang Shipyard in Yangzhou. The 8,882 gt, 13,670 dwt ship was delivered as the Falcon and in 2009 was renamed Sten Fjord for Swedish owners. Coastal Shipping Ltd of Happy Valley Goose Bay NL acquired the ship in 2015, but did not rename it until 2018. In summer it serves northern ports, but every year since 2016 it has been flagged out from January to May or June to trade internationally.
With Kivalliq W.'s sailing Algocanada was finally able to go alongside number 3 dock. The reason that Kivalliq W. "jumped the queue" was probably because it is headed back to the Lakes, to Nanticoke this time, and in order to load and exit the Seaway before closing, it needed to get underway as soon as possible.
Last, but not least, is the ConRo business. Namely Oceanex Sanderling which finally moved from anchorage to PSA Fairview Cove last night, and did not sail today so will be in port for Christmas.
One other ConRo ship was in port today, but was not carrying any containers. Instead it had RoRo cargo for Autoport. Grande Luanda is an unusual ship for transatlantic car carrying as it was built for Container / RoRo / General cargo service between Europe and Africa. It not only has a pair of 40 tonne SWL cranes it also carries grabs for bulk cargo. With the current high demand for autocarriers in Asia, it seems to have been pressed into service on this route as many of the high capacity ships have gone east. Recent calls have been Southampton Dec 6-8, Antwerp December 8-10, Vigo, Spain December 15-16. It is now due in Veracruz, Mexico December 30.
Dating from 2015, the 71,543 gt, 32,346 dwt Grande Luanda was built by Hyundai Mipo in Ulsan.
Also very unusual for a transatlantic car carrier it has vehicles stowed on the open deck. I imagine they had a pretty good bath in the recent weather, but will need a freshwater encore when they reach port.
They appear to be Ford Transit cargo vans and passenger vans.(Note the cargo grab stowed along the ship's rail.)
Conclusion:
So far there is no scheduled traffic in the harbour tomorrow, Christmas Day, so there will likely not be any Shipfax post. In that case I wish all readers and loyal followers a Merry Christmas.
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